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# The death of Richard III at Bosworth and Shakespeare's line about a horse
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/imenno-bitve-pri-bosuorte-a-tochnee-ee-osmysleniiu-shekspirom-my-obiazany-frazoi-konia-konia/
- Published: 2017-08-22T12:51:59.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:01:16.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Monarchies, People

It is to the Battle of Bosworth, or rather to Shakespeare's reading of it, that we owe the phrase "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!": the mount of Richard III Plantagenet had become stuck in a bog. As we know, no horse was found, and the king perished