Richard III - Richmond Quotes

Question 1

Confident, authoritative

Answer 1

• support, juxtaposed with R’s paranoia
• list by Christopher ‘Sir Walter Herbert etc.’
• ‘Here we receive from our father Stanley / Lines of fair comfort and encouragement’
• ‘have we marched on without impediment’, country’s support
• orders, imperatives
• ‘I’ll draw the form and model of our battle’

Question 2

Just, fair

Answer 2

• forgiveness
• orders for burial
• ‘Inter their bodies as become their births, / proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled / that in submission will return to us’

Question 3

Compassionate, kind

Answer 3

• ‘is young Stanley living?’
• ‘into my tent the dew is cold’

Question 4

God’s instrument

Answer 4

• ‘God and our good cause fight upon our side. The prayers of holy saints and wronged souls’
• ‘Oh now let Richmond and Elizabeth, / the true succeeders of each royal house / by God’s fair ordinance conjoin together’
• ‘to reap the harvest of perpetual peace / by this one bloody trial of sharp war’

Question 5

Richmond as Richard’s antithesis, images of division

Answer 5

• ‘a bloody tyrant and a homicide’
• ‘England hath long been mad, and scarred herself / the brother blindly shed the brother’s blood; / the father rashly slaughtered his own son’
• ‘the wretched, bloodied and usurping boar / that spoiled your summer fields and fruitful vines’
• ‘the sweetest sleep and fairest-boding dreams’
• ‘their souls whose bodies Richard murdered / came to my tent and cried on victory’