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Richard III: The Rise of a New King: A Play
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Series: The Theatrical Plays and Screenplays of Robert Jerome Pagan
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE WORLD ENDED.
THE MONARCHY SURVIVED.
In the ruins of civilization, power no longer belongs to the person with the strongest bloodline. It belongs to whoever controls the water, the food, the medicine, the shelter-and the gates that decide who is permitted to survive.
Richard of Gloucester has spent his life fighting for the House of York. Wounded by the destroyed world, used as a weapon by his family, and forced to carry the blood of their victories, Richard believes the end of the war will finally grant him the freedom to choose his own life.
He is wrong.
When the woman he loves becomes a threat to the political order, Richard's family makes a decision that transforms grief into vengeance-and a wounded soldier into a king capable of forcing an entire nation to live inside his pain.
Inspired by William Shakespeare's Richard III, Richard III: The Rise of a New King reconstructs the legendary tragedy inside a brutal post-apocalyptic society where monarchy has been rebuilt through control of the resources necessary for human survival.
This is not the story of a monster born evil.
It is the story of a man who becomes one.
As Richard moves from loyal brother to mourner, protector, conspirator, and ruler, every person around him must decide what they are willing to excuse in the name of family, stability, justice, faith, and survival. Kings rise. Brothers fall. Children become political obstacles. History is rewritten by the people who control the record.
And through it all, the dead refuse to remain silent.
Politically urgent, theatrically explosive, and emotionally devastating, this reconstructed literary edition confronts trauma, accountability, inherited power, institutional violence, racial and social exclusion, the weaponization of grief, and the dangerous moment when justice becomes appetite.
Perfect for readers, actors, directors, educators, theater students, Shakespeare enthusiasts, and lovers of dystopian political drama, classical adaptations, dark tragedy, speculative theater, and morally complex antiheroes.
The crown is not merely an ornament.
It is the hand placed upon the machinery that decides who lives inside the wall-and who is left outside it.
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