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Richard III (Critics: (“Monarch was God’s representative on earth,…
Richard III
Quotes
Act 5:
"For conscience is a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe"- Richard
"A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!"- Richard
"The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar (...) swills your warm blood like wash"- Richmond
Act 4:
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"Shall I be tempted of the devil thus? Ay, if the devil tempt you to do good"- Elizabeth/ Richard
Act 3:
"In this our tott'ring state? It is a reeling world indeed, my lord, and I believe will never stand upright"- Hastings/ Catesby
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Act 1:
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"Can curses pierce the clouds, and enter heaven? Why then, give way, dull clouds, to my quick curses"-Margaret
"Tell them that God bids us do good for evil. And thus clothe my naked villainy (...) and seem a saint when most I play the devil"- Richard
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"More pity that the eagles should be mewed, while kites and buzzards play at liberty"- Hastings
Critics:
“Monarch was God’s representative on earth, regicide was interfering with the work of God. Richard, therefore, was attempting to play God and in doing so challenging the divine order- a definite ‘conflict with a greater force’”-Cunningham
“Complexies of Richard’s oration sets the foundation for the destruction of the characters around him”- Anderson
“Accusations of undue supernatural influence would have carried heavy political weight with an Elizabethan audience”- Jameson
McKellen abandons the Baroque aestheticism that elevated the film to the realm of "high culture"."-Johnson
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"Richard's rise to power as he employs mise-en scene to conjure parallels with Nazi Germany"- McKellen adaptation
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