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Richard III ▾
contents
  1. Dramatis Personae
  2. Act I
  3. Act II
  4. Act III
  5. Act IV
  6. Act V
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Richard III

William Shakespeare

free · 31,343 words · 3 h 29 m audiobook, read by volunteers for LibriVox

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Dramatis Personae

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genres

  • Tragedy
  • Historical fiction

appears in

  • Great Books of the Western World
  • Shakespeare: The Histories

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Richard III by William Shakespeare. The text is in the US public domain, from the Standard Ebooks edition. Served from our own copy; read on their site for the full edition with images and typography.

Narrated by Diana Majlinger, Elizabeth Klett, mb, Andy Minter (1934-2017), Sonja, Garrett Fitzgerald, Denny Sayers (d. 2015), Ruth Golding, David Nicol, David Lawrence, Bob Sherman, Arielle Lipshaw, Peter R. Bloomfield, om123, Rismyth, StephenC, Arixa, Karen Savage, Kalynda, TriciaG, Nadine Eckert-Boulet, Availle, David Cole, 1evilmofo, Filippo Gioachin, Mark F. Smith, Nullifidian, Matt Judd, L. Lambert Lawson, Sandra G, Veronica Jenkins, Chris Caron, Roger Clifton, Lucy Perry, Bruce Pirie, and Snaefaxi for LibriVox, also public domain.

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