Editing Richard III (play) (section)

==Performance==
[[File:David Garrick (1717–1779), as Richard III (from Shakespeare's 'Richard III') Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1735–1811) Stratford-upon-Avon Town Hall.jpg|thumb|''[[David Garrick as Richard III at Bosworth]]'' by [[Nathaniel Dance-Holland]] (1771)]] [[File:Thomas Keene in Richard III 1884 Poster.png|thumb|Poster, {{circa|1884}}, advertising an American production of the play, showing many key scenes]]
[[File:Houghton TCS 44 - James Hewlett as Richard the Third - cropped.jpg|thumb|African-American [[James Hewlett (actor)|James Hewlett]] as [[Richard III]] in a {{circa|1821}} production. Below him is quoted the line "Off with his head; so much for Buckingham", a line not from the original play but from adaptations.<ref name="Cochran2014">{{cite book|author=Peter Cochran|title=Small-Screen Shakespeare|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iT5QBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA37|date=16 October 2014|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-6969-0|pages=37–39}}</ref>]]
The earliest certain performance occurred on {{Nowrap|16 or 17 November}} 1633, when [[King Charles I of England|Charles&nbsp;I]] and [[Queen Henrietta Maria]] watched it on the Queen's birthday.<ref name=Jowett/>{{rp|p.81–82|date=November 2012}}
[[File:Cast of Richard III, the Abbey.jpg|thumb|Cast of a 2018 production of ''Richard III'' at the [[Abbey Theatre]]]]

[[Colley Cibber]] produced the most successful of the [[English Restoration|Restoration]] adaptations of Shakespeare with his version of ''[[Richard III (1699 play)|Richard&nbsp;III]]'', at [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane|Drury Lane]] starting in 1700. Cibber himself played the role till 1739, and his version was on stage for the next century and a half. It contained the lines "Off with his head; so much for Buckingham" – possibly the most famous Shakespearean line that Shakespeare did not write – and "Richard's himself again!". The original Shakespearean version returned in a production at [[Sadler's Wells Theatre]] in 1845.<ref name=Halliday/>{{rp|p.102 & 414|date=November 2012}}

In 2011 film actor [[Kevin Spacey]] starred in an [[Old Vic]] production which subsequently toured the United States, directed by stage and film director [[Sam Mendes]]. Spacey had played the role of Richard's henchman, the Duke of Buckingham, in the Pacino film.