After years of civil unrest between the royal houses of York and Lancaster, Edward IV is undisputed king. Having seized the throne from Henry VI in bloody civil war he now looks to the future, unaware that his youngest brother, Richard Duke of Gloucester, ruthlessly pursues the crown for himself, murdering his own young nephews in the Tower. Shakespeare’s most notorious monarch manipulates, seduces and butchers his way to the throne as Shakespeare’s History Cycle reaches its brutal climax on Bosworth Field, marking the end of England's slide towards chaos which began in Henry VI Part I.
Royal Shakespeare Company
Michael Boyd, director
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