George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence by being drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine). He appears as a character in William Shakespeare's plays "Henry VI, Part 3" and "Richard III", in which his death is attributed to the machinations of Richard. George was born on 21 October 1449 in Dublin at a time when his father, the Duke of York, had begun to challenge Henry VI for the crown. His godfather was James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond. He was the third of the four sons of Richard and Cecily who survived to adulthood. His father died in 1460. In 1461 his elder brother, Edward,
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