With and eye on the crown and a heart of flint, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, gleefully murders his way to the top. Fueled by unquenchable bloodlust and endowed with an uncanny ability to charm his victims, this "bottled spider" weaves a tangled web and inadvertently snared his own soul. William Shakespeare breeds ruthless ambition and a wicked sense of humor to create one of literature's most memorable villains.