It is set around the downfall of Richard III.
It was performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields by the Duke's Company.
Although the full cast is unknown it included Thomas Betterton as Richard III, Henry Harris as Duke of Richmond and William Smith as Sir William Stanley.
In his diary Samuel Pepys described it as a "a most sad, melancholy play, and pretty good; but nothing eminent in it, as some tragedys are"[1] At the end of the show actress Moll Davis came on stage to dance a jig and announcer the next day's performance.
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