Richard III National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2014) or if adequately provoked

or if adequately provoked

has grown too large

and an infamous assassin

alive and well

Richard III National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2014) or if adequately provokedRichard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition recognizes the play's pre eminence as a performance work: a perspective that informs every aspect of the editing. Challenging traditional practice, the text is based on the 1597 Quarto which brings us closest to the play as it would have been staged in Shakespeare's theater. The introduction, which is