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A play written in Latin about this man is the only canonical play by Thomas Legge. In an anonymous play, this man says “revenge” 16 times in a speech Hamlet quotes when he says, “the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.” In a speech from one play, this man claims he can “set the murderous Machiavel (15[1])to school” and “add colours to the chameleon.” The stage direction “she spitteth at him” is from a scene where this man states, “Take up the sword again, or take up me” when proposing to a woman over her (*) husband’s corpse. In a Shakespearean adaptation by Colley Cibber, this man proclaims, “Off with his head! So much for Buckingham.” During a battle in one play, this man is tormented by the ghosts of people he murdered like his brother Clarence and (10[1])the two young princes. (10[1])For 10 points, name this English king whom Elizabethan playwrights like William Shakespeare depicted as a hunchback. ■END■

ANSWER: Richard III [or Richard, Duke of Gloucester; prompt on Richard] (The plays in the first four sentences are, in order: Richardus Tertius, The True Tragedy of Richard III, Henry VI, Part 3, and Richard III.)
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