richard

Question 1

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.

Answer 1

(Richard, Act 1 Scene 1)

Question 2

Grim-visaged War hath smoothed his wrinkled front.

Answer 2

(Richard, Act 1 Scene 1)

Question 3

And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover… I am determined to prove a villain

Answer 3

(Richard, Act 1 Scene 1)

Question 4

Was ever woman in this humour wooed?
Was ever woman in this humour won?

Answer 4

(Richard, Act 1 Scene 2)

Question 5

Since every Jack became a gentleman
There’s many a gentle person made a Jack.

Answer 5

(Richard, Act 1 Scene 3)

Question 6

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

Answer 6

(Richard, Act 3 Scene 1)

Question 7

The jealous, o’er-worn widow

Answer 7

richard about elizabeth 1.1

Question 8

what happens in act 1 scene 2

Answer 8

• richard woos anne

Question 9

what happens in 1.3

Answer 9

• edward is ill
• richard accuses woodvilles of chatting shit and implies theyre common
• margaret curses

Question 10

“you wrangling pirates”

Answer 10

• margaret about house of york 1.3

Question 11

some insults used by anne in 1.2

Answer 11

• fiend
• devil
• lump of foul deformity
• inhuman and unnatural

Question 12

main themes

Answer 12

• corruption/betrayal
• good vs evil
• (in)justice
• fate
• (abuse of/waning)power(/lessness)
• religion
• conscience
• DECIET
• revenge/jealousy

Question 13

ao5

Answer 13

• film version

Question 14

Shlegel 19th

Answer 14

Pointing to Richard’s lust for power as the hubris that causes his downfall.

Question 15

Peter Smith

Answer 15

Fickle stupidity of women.

Question 16

Ian McKellan 1995 FILM VERSION

Answer 16

Richard portrayed as facist leader (Nazi iconography) although depiction is humorous (jazz music, laughter).

Question 17

Alice Kirby

Answer 17

Rossetti lived an often unconventional life within the confines of Victorian mores

Question 18

Gilbert & Gubar

Answer 18

“Young ladies like Laura… should not loiter in the glen of imagination, which is the haunt of… Dante Gabriel Rosetti and his compatriots of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood”

Question 19

Simon Avery

Answer 19

(Thomas’ Silence in Maude Clare) “a clear critique of dominant masculinity”

Question 20

Virginia Woolf

Answer 20

(Rosetti’s) “god is a harsh god”

Question 21

Rossettis life

Answer 21

• “ rossettis god was a harsh god”
• worked with fallen women 1859 to 1870
• two failed engagements
• believed in firm gender roles set by the bible

Question 22

Coventry Patmore 1854

Answer 22

the angel in the house
- an idealized woman who is completely devoted to her husband and family.
pure, selfless and sympathetic

Question 23

Joan Templeton

Answer 23

A Dolls House is about “Everywomans struggle against Everyman”

Question 24

Michael Myers

Answer 24

“His security depends upon feeling superior”

“Helmer is shown to be weak”

Question 25

Sally Hedger

Answer 25

“a number of other female characters in nineteenth- century literature are coded as lunatics”

Question 26

“give me thy hand

Answer 26

Richard to Buckingham

Question 27

Your beauty was the cause of that effect Your beauty, that did haunt me in my sleep To undertake the death of the world, So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom

Answer 27

Richard to Anne 1.2

Question 28

Where is thy conscience?”
“in the duke of glouchester’s pocket!”
“when he opens his purses to give us our reward! Thy conscience flies out!

Answer 28

murderers of princes

Question 29

I shall despair; there is no creature loves me,
And if I die no soul will pity me.
And wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?

Answer 29

richard soliloquy
5.3

Question 30

DREAMS

Answer 30

• offer insight into characters mind
• stanley, clarence, richard

Question 31

that wrens makes prey where eagles dare not perach since ever jack becomes a gentleman there is many a gentle person made a jack

Answer 31

• over stretch of class
• implies woodvilles are common

Question 32

I, as a child, will follow thy

Answer 32

richard to Buckingham