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What are the 2 Key quotes for Act 1 Scene 1

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Richard - ‘Let’s purge this choler without letting blood.’

Richard - ‘We were not born to sue, but to command’

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What is the key quote for Act 1 Scene 2

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Gaunt - ‘Let heaven revenge, for I may never lift An angry arm against His minister’

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What are the 2 Key quotes for Act 1 Scene 3

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Richard - ‘We will descend and fold him in our arms”
Bolingbroke - “That sun that warms you here, shall shine on me”

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What are the key quotes for Act 1 Scene 4

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Richard: ‘wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles’
Richard: ‘pray God we may make haste, and come too late!’

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What are the 4 key quotes for Act 2 Scene 1

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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”

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What are the key quotes for Act 2 Scene 2

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Queen Isabel - ‘Some unborn sorrow, ripe in Fortune’s womb, is coming towards me’

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What are the key quotes for Act 2 Scene 3

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York - ‘In gross rebellion and detested treason.’

Bolingbroke - “The caterpillars of the commonwealth, which I have sworn to weed and pluck away’

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What are the key quotes for Act 2 Scene 4

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Captain: ‘The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth.’

Salisbury: ‘I see thy glory, like a shooting star,’

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What are the key quotes for Act 3 Scene 2

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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.’

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What is the key quote for Act 3 Scene 3

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Richard: ‘Down, down I come, like glist’ring Phaeton, wanting the manage of unruly jades.’

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What is the key quote for Act 3 Scene 4

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Gardner ‘their fortunes both are weighted. In your lord’s scale is nothing but himself and a few vanities”

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What are the key quotes of Act 4 Scene 1

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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”

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What are the Key quotes for Act 5 Scene 1

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Queen Isabel- “What, is my Richard both in shape and mind transform’d and weaken’d?”

Richard - “Think I am dead”

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What are the key quotes for Act 5 Scene 2

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York “No man cried, ‘God save him”

York “Treason, foul treason! Villain, traitor”

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What are the key quotes for Act 5 Scene 3

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Bolingbroke - “With all my heart I pardon him”

Duchess of York- “A god on earth thou art”

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What is the key quote for Act 5 Scene 4

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Exton: ‘’Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?’

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What is the key quote for Act 5 Scene 5

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Richard - “Mount, mount, my soul! thy seat is up on high
Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die”

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What are the key quotes for Act 5 Scene 6

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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”

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In What order do the acts go in?

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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

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What key thing happens in Act 1 Scene 1

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Bolingbroke accuses Mowbray of the murder of Gloucester

21
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What Key thing happens in Act 1 Scene 2

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The Duchess of Gloucester demands revenge

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What Key thing happens in Act 1 Scene 3

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Bolingbroke and Mowbray prepare to fight but their duel is stopped and their exiled

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What Key thing happens in Act 1 Scene 4

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Richard hears Bolingbroke has left the kingdom and Gaunt is sick

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What 3 Key things happens in Act 2 Scene 1

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-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

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What 2 key things happens in Act 2 Scene 2

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-The queen remains in England with Bushy, Bagot and green
-The news of Bolingbroke’s arrival is worrying

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What 2 Key things happens Act 2 Scene 3

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-Bolingbroke travels south gaining friends
-York gives him hospitality

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What key thing happens in Act 2 Scene 4

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The Welsh soldiers desert Richard

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What key thing happens in Act 3 Scene 1

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Bolingbroke executes Bushy and green

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What key thing happens in Act 3 Scene 2

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Richard reaches Wales and realises his followers are defecting

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What key thing happens in Act 3 Scene 3

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Bolingbroke demands his rights and Richard surrenders the crown

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What key thing happens in Act 3 Scene 4

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The queen walking in a garden overhears a discussion

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What 3 Key things happens in Act 4 Scene 1

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-Bolingbroke listens to Bagot and Aurmerle
-Carlisle prophesies
-Westminster hatches a plan

33
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What key thing happens in Act 5 Scene 1

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Richard and the Queen meet on a street

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What 2 key things happens in Act 5 Scene 2

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-York describes Richards entry into London
-Learns of the conspiracy

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What key thing happens in Act 5 Scene 3

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Duchess of York, Aumerle and York visit Bolingbroke

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What key thing happens in Act 5 Scene 4

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Exton prepares to the will of Bolingbroke

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What key thing happens in Act 5 Scene 5

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Richard alone in prison is visited and murdered

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What key thing happens in Act 5 Scene 6

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Exton produces the body of Richard

39
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Describe the divine right of kings for AO3

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In European history, a political doctrine which stated that kings derived their authority from God

  • and therefore could not be held accountable for their actions by any earthly standards
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Describe the Lords Appellant for AO3

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  • Believing Richard was mishandling the war the management of the country
  • Duke of Gloucester, Bolingbroke, Earl of Warwick, Earl of Arundel, Mowbray
  • they took power from him and murdered his friends
    -Richard killed and imprisoned 3 of them leaving B&M alive
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Describe the Lords Appellant in reference to the divine right of kings for AO3

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  • The Lords Appellant went against Gods say, though Richard was young and inexperienced, his kingship was is given birth right
  • Therefore in the eyes of God, the lords appellant defied his immediate command
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How is Richard an Allegory

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Characters/ events represent ideas about religion, morals and politics

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How is Richard a Chiasmic structure

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Characters Bolingbroke and Richard have directly opposing fortunes

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