By Shakespeare
ISBN-10: 0300122020
ISBN-13: 9780300122022
Treacherous, power-hungry, untempered by way of ethical restraint, and embittered by way of actual deformity, Richard, the more youthful brother of King Edward IV, is ablaze with ambition to take England’s throne. Richard III, Shakespeare’s lengthy chronicle of Richard’s machinations to be king, is a story of homicide upon homicide. He profits the throne, yet basically in short. In a bad dream, the ghosts of his sufferers stopover at the now-despised monarch to predict his demise. Richard's demise in conflict day after today concludes his reign of evil, ushering in eventually a brand new and hopeful period of peace for England.
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H He cannot live, I hope, and must not die Till George be packed with post-horse 135 up to heaven. I’ll in, to urge his hatred more to Clarence, With lies well steeled 136 with weighty arguments, And if I fail not in my deep intent Clarence hath not another day to live. 139 What though I killed her husband and her father? 145 But yet I run before my horse to market. Clarence still breathes, Edward still lives and reigns: When they are gone, then must I count my gains. 5 Poor key-cold figure 6 of a holy king, Pale ashes 7 of the house of Lancaster, Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood!
But as 65 I can learn, He hearkens after 66 prophecies and dreams, And from the cross-row 67 plucks the letter “G,” And says a wizard told him that by “G” His issue 68 disinherited should be. And for 69 my name of George begins with “G,” It follows in his thought that I am he. These (as I learn) and such like toys 70 as these Have moved 71 his Highness to commit me now. Gloucester Why this it is, when men are ruled 72 by women. ’Tis not the king that sends you to the Tower, My Lady Grey 73 his wife, Clarence, ’tis she That tempts 74 him to this extremity.
Burton Raffel,“Metrical Dramaturgy in Shakespeare’s Earlier Plays,” CEA Critic (Spring–Summer ): . . Charles Ross, Richard III (Berkeley: University of California Press, ), , –. . , –. . , . . Saccio, Shakespeare’s English Kings, . . Keith Feiling, A History of England (New York: McGraw-Hill, ), . xxxviii The Stage • There was no scenery (backdrops, flats, and so on). • Compared to today’s elaborate, high-tech productions, the Elizabethan stage had few on-stage props.