So WiIliam Shakespeare’s Richard III is not a very good play. In the First Folio it was designated a History, it has also been termed from time to time as a tragedy, but basically it’s a psycho-killer slasher flick with a deeply unsympathetic and homicidal title character. No particularly good soliloquies in it, nothing all that memorable except all that blood, but there is one line, uttered by the title character when all his bad deeds have finally caught up with him in Act 5, Scene 4 and he cries out “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!