Richard III - Richmond Quotes Flashcards

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Confident, authoritative

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  • support, juxtaposed with R’s paranoia
  • list by Christopher ‘Sir Walter Herbert etc.’
  • ‘Here we receive from our father Stanley / Lines of fair comfort and encouragement’
  • ‘have we marched on without impediment’, country’s support
  • orders, imperatives
  • ‘I’ll draw the form and model of our battle’
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Just, fair

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  • forgiveness
  • orders for burial
  • ‘Inter their bodies as become their births, / proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled / that in submission will return to us’
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Compassionate, kind

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  • ‘is young Stanley living?’
  • ‘into my tent the dew is cold’
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God’s instrument

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  • ‘God and our good cause fight upon our side. The prayers of holy saints and wronged souls’
  • ‘Oh now let Richmond and Elizabeth, / the true succeeders of each royal house / by God’s fair ordinance conjoin together’
  • ‘to reap the harvest of perpetual peace / by this one bloody trial of sharp war’
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Richmond as Richard’s antithesis, images of division

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  • ‘a bloody tyrant and a homicide’
  • ‘England hath long been mad, and scarred herself / the brother blindly shed the brother’s blood; / the father rashly slaughtered his own son’
  • ‘the wretched, bloodied and usurping boar / that spoiled your summer fields and fruitful vines’
  • ‘the sweetest sleep and fairest-boding dreams’
  • ‘their souls whose bodies Richard murdered / came to my tent and cried on victory’
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