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Richard III

This is the one with the “winter of our discontent” speech

Richard III by William Shakespeare

October 20, 2026 by vega-table Leave a Comment

Cbr18 Bingo – Success: because Richard succeeds at everything, at least at the beginning. This was originally one review but it got surprisingly long for something I wasn’t even going to read. I’d rather watch a play (movie) than read it and there is not a shortage of Richard III to watch. But there is a shortage of adaptations that include Margaret, who I met in Henry VI, Part 3. I looked at a thesaurus trying to find adjectives for that hypocritical sadistic warmongering Grendel’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: cbr18bingo, Play, Shakespeare history, william shakespeare

vega-table's CBR18 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: cbr18bingo, Play, Shakespeare history, william shakespeare ·
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William Shakespeare lives up to own reputation

Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare

October 19, 2026 by vega-table 2 Comments

Cbr18 Bingo – Clown: it’s about royal succession. I started Requiem of the Rose King by Aya Kanno, knowing it was inspired by Shakespeare’s histories and knowing I have a bad habit of abandoning books to do background research. Henry VI, Part 3 is the end of the Henry VI trilogy, and it drops you into the storm with a lot of characters giving a lot of exposition, which is that Henry (Lancaster) is the king and Richard (York) thinks he should be king and […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, History Tagged With: cbr18bingo, Play, Shakespeare history, william shakespeare

vega-table's CBR18 Review No:50 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, History · Tags: cbr18bingo, Play, Shakespeare history, william shakespeare ·
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