Friendly Folio - Richard the Third

Richard the Third is a history written by William Shakespeare...

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The complete package for a play's first 30 minutes, with all scripts and guides. The perfect introduction to Cue Script work in the classroom or workshop.

Total Lines Characters Genders Running Time  
541 11 (or 8 with doubling) 9 male, 2 female 32 to 36 mins

Parts / Sides in 'Richard the Third':

250+ Lines:
Richard
Buckingham
Queene Elizabeth
Less Than 250 Lines:
Archbishop Messenger
Archbishop of Yorke
Bishop of Ely
Blunt (James)
Boy (Edward)
Brakenbury (Lieutenant)
Brandon
Cardinal (Bourchier)
Catesby
Christopher (Urswick)
Clarence
Daughter (Margaret)
Dorset
Duchesse of Yorke
First Citizen
First Messenger
First Murtherer
Fourth Messenger
Gentleman
Grey
Hastings
Herbert
Keeper
King Edward (IV)
King Henry (VI)
Lady Anne
Lord
Lord Mayor
Lovell
Norfolke
Oxford
Page
Priest (Sir John)
Prince Edward
Pursuivant
Queene Margaret
Ratcliffe
Richmond
Rivers
Scrivener
Second Citizen
Second Messenger
Second Murtherer
Sherife
Stanley (Derby)
Stanley Messenger
Surrey
Third Citizen
Third Messenger
Tyrrel
Vaughan
Young Prince
Young Yorke

Speeches:

Code Character Lines First Line  
G-800 Prince Edward21 Good Lords, make all the speedie hast you may.
M-800 Buckingham26 Hastings, and Edwards children, Gray and Rivers,
(Why then Al-soules day, is my bodies doomsday)
M-801 Buckingham24 Know then, it is your fault, that you resigne
(In this just Cause come I to move your Grace.)
M-802 Buckingham28 My Lord, this argues Conscience in your Grace,
(Refuse not, mightie Lord, this proffer’d love.)
M-803 Clarence30 No, no, my Dreame was lengthen’d after life.
(Ah Keeper, Keeper, I have done these things)
M-804 Clarence31 O, I have past a miserable night.
(Me thoughts that I had broken from the Tower,)
M-805 Hastings25 Woe, woe for England, not a whit for me,
(O bloody Richard: miserable England,)
M-806 King Edward (IV)33 Have I a tongue to doome my Brothers death?
M-807 Prince Edward21 Good Lords, make all the speedie hast you may.
M-808 Richard37 A thing devised by the Enemy.
(March on, joyne bravely, let us too't pell mell,)
M-809 Richard21 As I entend to prosper, and repent:
M-810 Richard30 Give me another Horse, bind up my Wounds:
M-811 Richard23 Goe after, after, Cousin Buckingham.
(Tell them, how Edward put to death a Citizen,)
M-812 Richard18 He cannot live I hope, and must not dye,
M-813 Richard37 I cannot tell, if to depart in silence,
(Alas, why would you heape this Care on me?)
M-814 Richard46 Looke what is done, cannot be now amended:
(And by that losse, your Daughter is made Queene.)
M-815 Richard39 Now is the Winter of our Discontent,
M-816 Richard31 Those eyes of thine, from mine have drawne salt Teares;
(Loe heere I lend thee this sharpe-pointed Sword,)
M-817 Richard37 Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?
M-818 Richmond27 Interre their Bodies, as become their Births,
(We will unite the White Rose, and the Red.)
M-819 Richmond35 Why then ’tis time to Arme, and give direction.
(More then I have said, loving Countrymen,)
M-820 Scrivener14 Here is the Indictment of the good Lord Hastings,
M-821 Stanley (Derby)21 Fortune, and Victory sit on thy Helme.
M-822 Tyrrel22 The tyrannous and bloudie Act is done,
W-800 Duchesse of Yorke25 Ah so much interest have I in thy sorrow,
W-801 Duchesse of Yorke15 Heare me a word:
(Either thou wilt die, by Gods just ordinance)
W-802 Lady Anne28 And I with all unwillingnesse will goe.
W-803 Lady Anne32 Set downe, set downe your honourable load,
W-804 Lady Anne25 What do you tremble? are you all affraid?
(Foule Divell, For Gods sake hence, and trouble us not,)
W-805 Queene Elizabeth18 Ah! who shall hinder me to waile and weepe?
(To make an act of Tragicke violence.)
W-806 Queene Elizabeth20 Heavens wrong is most of all:
W-807 Queene Margaret19 And leave out thee? stay Dog, for thou shalt heare me.
W-808 Queene Margaret18 Beare with me: I am hungry for revenge,
(Richard yet lives, Hels blacke Intelligencer,)
W-809 Queene Margaret34 I call'd thee then, vaine flourish of my fortune:
W-810 Queene Margaret27 What? were you snarling all before I came,