The True Tragedy of Richard III

The True Tragedy of Richard III is an anonymous Elizabethan history play on the subject of Richard III of England. It has attracted the attention of scholars of English Renaissance drama principally for the question of its relationship with Shakespeare's Richard III.

The title spelling that appears on the cover page of the quarto is The True Tragedie of Richard the third.

(The True Tragedy of Richard III should not be confused with The True Tragedy of Richard, Duke of York; the latter is the early alternative version of Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 3.)

The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 19 June 1594; it appeared in print later that year, in a quarto printed and published by Thomas Creede and sold by the stationer William Barley, "at his shop in Newgate Market, near Christ Church door." Creede's 1594 quarto was the sole edition of the play prior to the nineteenth century.

Only three copies of the play are known to have survived. One copy can be found in the Carl Pforzheimer library at the Harry Ransom Center, one is at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the third can be found in the Huntington Library

W. W. Greg prepared a modern edition of the play for the Malone Society; it was published in 1929 primarily from the Pforzheimer copy.

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