Richard III - Richard Quotes Flashcards

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Manipulative skill, talent for dissimulation

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  • ‘dive thoughts down to my soul’, melodramatic tone creates humour
  • ‘We are not safe, Clarence, we are not safe’, ‘simple, plain Clarence’
  • Boy: ‘good uncle Gloucester’
  • ‘bear the golden yoke of sovreignity’
  • ‘Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?’
  • ‘So wise so young, they say, do never live long’
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Audacious

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  • ‘till George be packed with post-horse up to heaven’, delights in plans
  • ‘make the wench amends’, derogatory, triumphing in audacity
  • ‘your eyes drop millstones when fools eyes fall tears’
  • ‘I am determined to prove a villain’
  • ‘as I am subtle, false and treacherous’
  • ‘some dungeon / your bedchamber’
  • ‘take up the sword again or take up me’
  • ‘devilish plots’, ‘damned witchcraft’, ‘hellish charms’
  • ‘the rest that love me, rise and follow me’
  • ‘men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes’
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Performance, pious persona

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  • ‘Now by Saint John, that is bad news indeed’
  • ‘because I cannot flatter and look fair’
  • ‘I am too childish-foolish for this world’
  • ‘I clothe my naked villainy… and seem a Saint when most I play the devil’
  • ‘how far I am from the desire of this’ when given throne, abrupt shift in tone
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Doomed all along, DJ

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  • ‘the worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul’
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Power diminishing, loss of control

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  • ‘kingdom stands on brittle glass’
  • ‘high reaching Buckingham has grown circumspect’
    ‘Dorset /as I hear, is fled to Richmond’
  • ‘And buried, gentle Tyrrel?’
  • ‘jolly thriving wooer’
  • ‘tender babes’
  • ‘infer fair England’s peace by this alliance’
  • ‘relenting fool and shallow, changing woman’, cut off again
  • flurry of messengers, only reacting to events, leader or tyrant (slap)
  • ‘bruised underneath the yoke of tyranny’
  • contrast in camps, mood and characters, dark vs Sun
  • ‘despair and die’, shows R’s crime and elevate RM, number of ghosts cumulative impact, conscience
  • ‘is there a murderer here? No. Yes I am.’, self-doubt and despair, panic, confusion
  • ‘all several sins, all used in each degree’, conscience and crimes catching up with him
  • ‘a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!’
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Rhetorical skill

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  • ‘capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber’
  • ‘dogs bark at me as I halt by them’
  • ‘Oh, let me make period to my curse’
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