# The Tragical History of King Richard III. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal, by His Majesty's Servants. Alter'd from Shakespear by C. Cibber

**Slug:** `cibber_richard_iii_1700`  
**Priority:** 3  
**Author:** Colley Cibber  
**Edition / date:** London: printed for B. Lintott at the Middle Temple-Gate, 1700 (imprint legible). FIRST edition (archive.org 'Early English Books 1641-1700' microfilm set; catalogued under Shakespeare).

## Sources
- **archive.org** `bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-tragical-history-of-_shakespeare-william_1700` - https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-tragical-history-of-_shakespeare-william_1700
  - catalogue title: The tragical history of King Richard III. ...  1700
  - date field: 1700; images/frames: 67; OCR engine: tesseract 5.3.0-6-g76ae
  - digitised from / contributor: ['IA40313704-45', 'microfilm']
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-tragical-history-of-_shakespeare-william_1700_djvu.txt`
  - note: 67 frames; reel IA40313704-45

## Cleaned text(s)
- `cibber_richard_iii_1700.clean.txt` - 20,436 words; 97% of text lines pass a dictionary check

## Completeness
Complete.

## OCR quality / notes
Cleaning: IA djvu.txt was normalised (ſ->s), microfilm target frames and junk lines trimmed, page numbers/signatures/running heads dropped, end-of-line hyphenation joined, and a CONSERVATIVE long-s correction applied (words with 'f' that are not in a modern frequency list are replaced by their 's' variant when that variant is common; a short override list covers so/she/sir/see/such/some...). Ambiguous real words (fame/same, fell/sell, fold/sold, found/sound, foul/soul, fit/sit ...) were left unchanged. Statistics of every change are in the `*.cleanstats.json` beside each cleaned file. Expect residual OCR noise; the '% of lines pass a dictionary check' figure above is a rough legibility score (modern-English word list; 18th-c. spellings count against it).
Later editions 1718-1790 also on archive.org.