richard Flashcards
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
(Richard, Act 1 Scene 1)
Grim-visaged War hath smoothed his wrinkled front.
(Richard, Act 1 Scene 1)
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover… I am determined to prove a villain
(Richard, Act 1 Scene 1)
Was ever woman in this humour wooed?
Was ever woman in this humour won?
(Richard, Act 1 Scene 2)
Since every Jack became a gentleman
There’s many a gentle person made a Jack.
(Richard, Act 1 Scene 3)
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
(Richard, Act 3 Scene 1)
The jealous, o’er-worn widow
richard about elizabeth 1.1
what happens in act 1 scene 2
- richard woos anne
what happens in 1.3
- edward is ill
- richard accuses woodvilles of chatting shit and implies theyre common
- margaret curses
“you wrangling pirates”
- margaret about house of york 1.3
some insults used by anne in 1.2
- fiend
- devil
- lump of foul deformity
- inhuman and unnatural
main themes
- corruption/betrayal
- good vs evil
- (in)justice
- fate
- (abuse of/waning)power(/lessness)
- religion
- conscience
- DECIET
- revenge/jealousy
ao5
- film version
Shlegel 19th
Pointing to Richard’s lust for power as the hubris that causes his downfall.
Peter Smith
Fickle stupidity of women.
Ian McKellan 1995 FILM VERSION
Richard portrayed as facist leader (Nazi iconography) although depiction is humorous (jazz music, laughter).
Alice Kirby
Rossetti lived an often unconventional life within the confines of Victorian mores
Gilbert & Gubar
“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”
Simon Avery
(Thomas’ Silence in Maude Clare) “a clear critique of dominant masculinity”
Virginia Woolf
(Rosetti’s) “god is a harsh god”
Rossettis life
- “ 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
Coventry Patmore 1854
the angel in the house
- an idealized woman who is completely devoted to her husband and family.
pure, selfless and sympathetic
Joan Templeton
A Dolls House is about “Everywomans struggle against Everyman”
Michael Myers
“His security depends upon feeling superior”
“Helmer is shown to be weak”