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Page viii
... Richmond , and the | Battell at Bosworth Field . The pages are headed : The Life and Death of Richard the Third . The play is divided into acts and scenes . The fourth scene of Act III . includes scenes iv . - vii . as at present ...
... Richmond , and the | Battell at Bosworth Field . The pages are headed : The Life and Death of Richard the Third . The play is divided into acts and scenes . The fourth scene of Act III . includes scenes iv . - vii . as at present ...
Page xxii
... Richmond's separate ex- peditions of 1483 and 1485 is annihilated , and the drama moves on to its climax at Bosworth . The dramatic convenience of these alterations is obvious : accuracy of date is incompatible , in the space of five ...
... Richmond's separate ex- peditions of 1483 and 1485 is annihilated , and the drama moves on to its climax at Bosworth . The dramatic convenience of these alterations is obvious : accuracy of date is incompatible , in the space of five ...
Page xxv
... Richmond , the ultimate avenger , is the most lifeless figure of the play : he is merely the instrument of justice . To the author , in fact , the whole course of such a tragedy was perfectly obvious . It would have been impossible for ...
... Richmond , the ultimate avenger , is the most lifeless figure of the play : he is merely the instrument of justice . To the author , in fact , the whole course of such a tragedy was perfectly obvious . It would have been impossible for ...
Page xxvi
... Richmond's invasion , he falters , chides the messengers furiously , and issues contradictory orders to his lieutenants . But , a moment later , he recovers his courage . Once again , after his last night of visions , he wakes with the ...
... Richmond's invasion , he falters , chides the messengers furiously , and issues contradictory orders to his lieutenants . But , a moment later , he recovers his courage . Once again , after his last night of visions , he wakes with the ...
Page xxxi
... Richmond , at Covent Garden in 1811 . Edmund Kean played Richard with great success at Drury Lane in the seasons of 1813-4 and 1814-5 . Macready , who made his fame in the same part about 1819 , was the principal actor in the ...
... Richmond , at Covent Garden in 1811 . Edmund Kean played Richard with great success at Drury Lane in the seasons of 1813-4 and 1814-5 . Macready , who made his fame in the same part about 1819 , was the principal actor in the ...
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Page 7 - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York ; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Page 8 - Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
Page 47 - But then I sigh, and with a piece of Scripture, Tell them — that God bids us do good for evil ; And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stolen forth of holy writ ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Page 199 - By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
Page 9 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page vii - The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. Containing, His treacherous Plots against his brother Clarence : the pittiefull murther of his innocent nephewes : His tyrannicall vsurpation : with the whole course of his detested life, and most deserucd death. As it hath beene lately acted by the Right honourable the Lord Chamberlaine, his seruants.
Page 199 - ... a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree ; Murder, stern murder, in the dir'st degree ; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, — Guilty ! guilty ! I shall despair.
Page 110 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you, send for some of them.
Page 10 - Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover. To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Page 51 - With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick ; Who cried aloud, " What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence...