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George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence
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Definition:[1449 - 1478]a brother to Richard III who was imprisoned for treason and later executed. It was widely believed that he was drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine. Shakespeare portrayed him (probably unfairly) as a drunken character in two of his plays.
image: By Lucas Cornelisz de Kock (1495-1552), https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7500733
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her soul sank into this drunkenness, shrivelled up, drowned in it, like Clarence in his butt of Malmsey.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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Clarence: Where art thou, Keeper? Give me a cup of wine.
2. Murderer: You shall have wine enough, my lord, anon.
William Shakespeare. The Tragedy of Richard the Third (1623)
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