Malvasia Malmsey was one of the three major wines exported from Greece in medieval times. (For other examples, see Rumney wine and Cretan wine). It is alleged that when Edward IV of England convicted his brother, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, of high treason, his private execution consisted of being "drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine," which is dramatized in Shakespeare's "Richard III". Both Monemvasia and Candia have lent their names to modern grape varieties. In Greece, there is a variety known as Monemvasia, evidently named after the port, though now grown primarily in the Cyclades. In western Europe,
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