Richard III - Act 3 Quotes Flashcards
Richard welcomes Prince Edward to London, casting aspersions on the honesty of Rivers, Grey
‘Your grace attended to their sugared words / But looked not on the poison of their hearts’.
Richard and Buckingham’s reaction to the news is revealing
‘From her jealous arms pluck him perforce’.
Richard is strangely vulnerable to the taunting and teasing of York
‘Because I am little, like an ape, he thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders’.
Act 3 Scene 1 end with Richard, Buckingham and Catesby planning to…
‘Hold divided councils’
If Hastings will not support Richard’s claim to the throne
‘Chop off his head; something we will determine’.
Buckingham’s loyalty is to be rewarded with…
‘The earldom of Hereford and all the moveables’.
Buckingham’s disrespectful attitude towards Hastings
‘Here comes the swearing lord’.
Prince Edward shows bravery and loyalty
‘God keep me from false friends, but they were none’.
When the cardinal reacts, Buckingham responds…
‘You are too senseless obstinate, my lord’.
Richard’s interaction with young York shows him to be heartless
‘(aside) Short summers lightly have a forward spring’;
Richard is proud of Young York’s verbal skills
‘Thus, like the formal Vice, Iniquity, I moralise two meanings in one word’
Hasting’s response to Catesby sounding Richard out concerning Richard as the next king
‘i’ll have this crown of mine cut from my shoulders’
Hastings pleasure at the demise of his adversaries that he fails to spot the threat himself
‘this day those enemies are put to death / and i in better state than e’er was’
Richard is deliberately provoking / entrapping Hastings
‘if they have done this deed’
Hasting dies repenting
‘i now repent … as i too triumphing’
Richard and Buckingham perform in order to justify the death of Hastings to the Mayor and intimidate him into further supporting their cause
‘come cousin, canst thou quake and change thy colour …’
Buckingham is happy to work for Richard
‘as if the golden fee for which i plead were for myself’
the scrivener is aware of Richard’s duplicity but is unable to come forward due to fear and intimidation
‘bad is the world and all will come to nought when such ill dealing must be seen in thought’
