Richard II Flashcards
(43 cards)
What are the 2 Key quotes for Act 1 Scene 1
Richard - ‘Let’s purge this choler without letting blood.’
Richard - ‘We were not born to sue, but to command’
What is the key quote for Act 1 Scene 2
Gaunt - ‘Let heaven revenge, for I may never lift An angry arm against His minister’
What are the 2 Key quotes for Act 1 Scene 3
Richard - ‘We will descend and fold him in our arms”
Bolingbroke - “That sun that warms you here, shall shine on me”
What are the key quotes for Act 1 Scene 4
Richard: ‘wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles’
Richard: ‘pray God we may make haste, and come too late!’
What are the 4 key quotes for Act 2 Scene 1
Gaunt - “violent fires soon burn out themselves”
Gaunt - “This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England”
Richard - “seize to us the plate, coin, revenues and moveable’s
Northumberland- ‘The king is not himself, but basely led by flatterers”
What are the key quotes for Act 2 Scene 2
Queen Isabel - ‘Some unborn sorrow, ripe in Fortune’s womb, is coming towards me’
What are the key quotes for Act 2 Scene 3
York - ‘In gross rebellion and detested treason.’
Bolingbroke - “The caterpillars of the commonwealth, which I have sworn to weed and pluck away’
What are the key quotes for Act 2 Scene 4
Captain: ‘The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth.’
Salisbury: ‘I see thy glory, like a shooting star,’
What are the key quotes for Act 3 Scene 2
Richard: ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea can wash the balm from an anointed king
Richard: “From Richard’s night to Bolingbroke’s fair day.’
What is the key quote for Act 3 Scene 3
Richard: ‘Down, down I come, like glist’ring Phaeton, wanting the manage of unruly jades.’
What is the key quote for Act 3 Scene 4
Gardner ‘their fortunes both are weighted. In your lord’s scale is nothing but himself and a few vanities”
What are the key quotes of Act 4 Scene 1
Carlisle: ‘If you crown him, let me prophesy, The blood of English shall manure the ground,
Richard - “Not my griefs still I am king of those”
Richard - “For there it is, crack’d in a hundred shivers”
What are the Key quotes for Act 5 Scene 1
Queen Isabel- “What, is my Richard both in shape and mind transform’d and weaken’d?”
Richard - “Think I am dead”
What are the key quotes for Act 5 Scene 2
York “No man cried, ‘God save him”
York “Treason, foul treason! Villain, traitor”
What are the key quotes for Act 5 Scene 3
Bolingbroke - “With all my heart I pardon him”
Duchess of York- “A god on earth thou art”
What is the key quote for Act 5 Scene 4
Exton: ‘’Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?’
What is the key quote for Act 5 Scene 5
Richard - “Mount, mount, my soul! thy seat is up on high
Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die”
What are the key quotes for Act 5 Scene 6
Henry - “I hate the murderer, love him murdered”
Henry - “I’ll make a voyage to the Holy Land, to wash this blood off from my guilty hand”
In What order do the acts go in?
Act 1 Scene 1, 2, 3, 4
Act 2 Scene 1, 2, 3, 4
Act 3 Scene 1, 2. 3. 4
Act 4 Scene 1
Act 5 Scene 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
What key thing happens in Act 1 Scene 1
Bolingbroke accuses Mowbray of the murder of Gloucester
What Key thing happens in Act 1 Scene 2
The Duchess of Gloucester demands revenge
What Key thing happens in Act 1 Scene 3
Bolingbroke and Mowbray prepare to fight but their duel is stopped and their exiled
What Key thing happens in Act 1 Scene 4
Richard hears Bolingbroke has left the kingdom and Gaunt is sick
What 3 Key things happens in Act 2 Scene 1
-Gaunt, dying laments the state of the nation
-Richard seizes his subject estates and goes to ireland leaving York in charge
-Northumberland has news of Bolingbroke
