Editing Richard III (play) (section)

===''My kingdom for a horse!''===
Richard begins act 5, scene 4 by exclaiming "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" after being knocked from his steed during the climactic battle.<ref>Shakespeare, ''Richard III'', Act 5, scene 4, line 13</ref><ref>Shakespeare & Beyond. [https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/richard-iii-my-kingdom-for-a-horse/ ''Richard III: My kingdom for a horse''], [[Folger Library]], 24 August 2021. Retrieved 23 June 2023</ref> [[wiktionary:my kingdom for a horse#English|The phrase]] illustrates the drama and desperation of his sudden fall from grace and has entered common parlance as such.

In the 1949 [[Looney Tunes]] cartoon ''[[A Ham in a Role]]'', the dog actor says [[William Catesby|Catesby]] and Richard III's lines, "Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost! A horse, A horse, My kingdom for a horse!" before being kicked out of the window by a [[Goofy Gophers]]-hauled horse.{{cn|date=April 2023}}

[[Noël Coward]]'s 1941 song ''[[Could You Please Oblige Us with a Bren Gun?]]'' includes a lyric referring to Colonel Montmorency: "He realised his army should be mechanised, of course/ But somewhere inside/ Experience cried/ 'My kingdom for a horse!{{'"}}

In the 1993 [[Mel Brooks]] film ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]'', the character [[Robin of Locksley]], played by [[Cary Elwes]], says "A horse, my kingdom for a horse!" as he arrives in [[England]] in the opening scene.{{cn|date=April 2023}}

In [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]]'s 1816 story [[The Nutcracker and the Mouse King]], the Nutcracker shouts in one scene; "A horse – a horse – my kingdom for a horse!"