Lords and other Attendants; a Pursuivant, Scrivener, Citizens, Murderers, Messengers, Soldiers, &c. SCENE-In various parts of England. TIME OF ACTION. The time of this play, according to Daniel, occupies eleven days, with intervals. Day 1: Act I. Scenes 1 and 2.-Interval. Day 2: Act I. Scenes 3 and 4; Act II. Scenes 1 and 2. Day 3: Act II. Scene 3.-Interval. Day 4: Act II. Scene 4. Day 5: Act III. Scene 1. Day 6: Act III. Scenes 2-7. Day 7: Act IV. Scene 1. Day 8: Act IV. Scenes 2-5.-Interval. Day 9: Act V. Scene 1.-Interval. Day 10: Act V. Scene 2 and first half of Scene 3. HISTORIC DATES.—The dead body of Henry VI. exposed to public view in St. Paul's, 22nd May, 1471. Marriage of Richard with Anne, 1472. Death of Clarence, beginning of 1478. Death of Edward IV., 9th April, 1483. Rivers and Grey arrested, 30th April, 1483. Hastings executed, 13th June, 1483. Rivers, Grey, and Vaughan executed, 15th June, 1483. Buckingham harangues the citizens in Guildhall, 24th June, 1483. Lord Mayor and citizens offer Richard the crown, 25th June; he is declared king at Westminster Hall, 26th June; and crowned, 6th July, 1483. Buckingham executed, October, 1483. Death of Queen Anne, 16th March, 1485. Henry VII. lands at Milford Haven, 7th August, 1485. Battle of Bosworth Field, 22nd August, 1485. |