House of York Warwick himself changed sides, and supported Margaret of Anjou and the king's jealous brother George, Duke of Clarence, in briefly restoring Henry in 1470-71. However, Edward regained his throne, and the House of Lancaster was wiped out with the death of Henry VI himself, in the Tower of London in 1471. In 1478, the continued trouble caused by Clarence led to his execution in the Tower of London; popularly he is thought to have been drowned in a butt of malmsey wine. On Edward's death in 1483, the crown passed to his twelve-year-old son Edward. Edward IV's younger brother Richard,
The True Tragedy of Richard III "The True Tragedy", since he paraphrases it in "Hamlet", III,ii,254, "the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge." Line 1892 in "The True Tragedy" reads "The screeking raven sits croking for revenge." Unlike Shakespeare, "The True Tragedy" has no act or scene division. The True Tragedy of Richard III The True Tragedy of Richard III is an anonymous Elizabethan history play on the subject of Richard III of England. It has attracted the attention of scholars of English Renaissance drama principally for the question of its relationship with Shakespeare's "Richard III". The title spelling that appears on the cover page of