Richard III - Richard Quotes Flashcards
1
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Manipulative skill, talent for dissimulation
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- ‘dive thoughts down to my soul’, melodramatic tone creates humour
- ‘We are not safe, Clarence, we are not safe’, ‘simple, plain Clarence’
- Boy: ‘good uncle Gloucester’
- ‘bear the golden yoke of sovreignity’
- ‘Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?’
- ‘So wise so young, they say, do never live long’
2
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Audacious
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- ‘till George be packed with post-horse up to heaven’, delights in plans
- ‘make the wench amends’, derogatory, triumphing in audacity
- ‘your eyes drop millstones when fools eyes fall tears’
- ‘I am determined to prove a villain’
- ‘as I am subtle, false and treacherous’
- ‘some dungeon / your bedchamber’
- ‘take up the sword again or take up me’
- ‘devilish plots’, ‘damned witchcraft’, ‘hellish charms’
- ‘the rest that love me, rise and follow me’
- ‘men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes’
3
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Performance, pious persona
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- ‘Now by Saint John, that is bad news indeed’
- ‘because I cannot flatter and look fair’
- ‘I am too childish-foolish for this world’
- ‘I clothe my naked villainy… and seem a Saint when most I play the devil’
- ‘how far I am from the desire of this’ when given throne, abrupt shift in tone
4
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Doomed all along, DJ
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- ‘the worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul’
5
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Power diminishing, loss of control
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- ‘kingdom stands on brittle glass’
- ‘high reaching Buckingham has grown circumspect’
‘Dorset /as I hear, is fled to Richmond’ - ‘And buried, gentle Tyrrel?’
- ‘jolly thriving wooer’
- ‘tender babes’
- ‘infer fair England’s peace by this alliance’
- ‘relenting fool and shallow, changing woman’, cut off again
- flurry of messengers, only reacting to events, leader or tyrant (slap)
- ‘bruised underneath the yoke of tyranny’
- contrast in camps, mood and characters, dark vs Sun
- ‘despair and die’, shows R’s crime and elevate RM, number of ghosts cumulative impact, conscience
- ‘is there a murderer here? No. Yes I am.’, self-doubt and despair, panic, confusion
- ‘all several sins, all used in each degree’, conscience and crimes catching up with him
- ‘a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!’
6
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Rhetorical skill
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- ‘capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber’
- ‘dogs bark at me as I halt by them’
- ‘Oh, let me make period to my curse’
