‘Richard III’ is a late 16th Century play by which English playwright and poet?
Richard III (play) Richard III (play) Richard III is a historical play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written around 1593. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of King Richard III of England. The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified as such. Occasionally, however, as in the quarto edition, it is termed a tragedy. "Richard III" concludes Shakespeare's first tetralogy (also containing "Henry VI" parts 1–3). It is the second longest play in the canon after "Hamlet" and is the longest of the First Folio, whose version of
Alexander Scott (16th-century poet) has been described as ethically incoherent, but recent revisions of such essentialist readings have restored his multilayered texts as attractively complex poems, an appealing alternative to contemporary English poetry as anthologized in Tottel's Miscellany (1557)." Alexander Scott (16th-century poet) Alexander Scott (Scots: Sanderris Scott: 1520?1582/1583) was a Scottish Court poet. He is believed to have spent most of his time in or near Edinburgh. Thirty-six short poems are attributed to him, including "Ane New Yeir Gift to Quene Mary", "The Rondel of Love", and a satire, "Justing at the Drum". According to an older view, "he has great variety of