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My Horse My Horse My Kingdom For A Horse. A horse a horse my kingdom for a horse. William Shakespeare www.literally.cc A titanic villain in Shakespeare's history plays, Richard III departs the stage and this life with these words, fighting to his death on foot after losing his horse in battle The king spoke the line in Act V of the play Richard III, after losing his horse in battle

His appreciation of the grace, strength and loyalty of horses is evident in the care he took to name so many of the horses mentioned in the plays -- Barbary, Capilet, Dobbin, Surrey, Galathe, Curtal -- and in the intense feelings horses kindle in his characters. More generally the meaning of the expression is that the speaker is in great need of a particular item and is willing to trade something of great value to get it.

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'My kingdom for a horse' is a quotation from act 5, scene 4 of Shakespeare's Richard III, At the end of the play Richard has lost his horse on the battlefield and we see his extreme frustration A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse! The scene ends after this second repetition of "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" In Scene 5, Richard and Richmond fight without dialogue, and Richard is slain The king spoke the line in Act V of the play Richard III, after losing his horse in battle

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My Kingdom for a Horse by Alix Berenzy. A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse! The scene ends after this second repetition of "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" In Scene 5, Richard and Richmond fight without dialogue, and Richard is slain 'My kingdom for a horse' is a quotation from act 5, scene 4 of Shakespeare's Richard III, At the end of the play Richard has lost his horse on the battlefield and we see his extreme frustration