Richard III is an intense exploration of the psychology of evil, and that exploration is centred on and in Richard's mind. ... One of the first impressions of Richard that we have is his jealousy for his brother, King Edward IV. ... When Richard changes her words but also uses "infected ", he is using poison as love to show that her beauty has infected his eyes and his life. ... Shakespeare's presentation of Richard III is very effective to the play. ... His manipulative nature is probably the most effective characteristic and the strongest of Richard's and this makes him rise ...

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But for his usurpation, there is much to commend in the career of Richard III, 1470-85." ... Richard III, a wicked tyrant, an unscrupulous murderer, a deformed hunchback. Just some of the reputations and images that have been associated with this notorious king ever since his death on the fields of Bosworth. ... Some six weeks later, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, uncle of the two boys, proclaimed himself king as Richard III. ... This source describes how Richard's actions of 1483 led to the mutiny: " he also put to death the two children of King Edward, for which cause he lost the hearts o...

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In the play Act III,ii Richard states one of the most important phrases of the play, "Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm from an anointed king". ... Richard stresses his reliance on divine rights especially in act III,ii,83, when after he finds out that his army has gone to join Bullingbrook after hearing that Richard is dead he says, " I had forgot myself, am I not king? ... Richard may be following the divine rights but unfortunately Richard only seeing himself as untouchable so to speak, and not as a normal person which leads him to have an identity crisis which th...

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"Titus Andronicus" and "The history of King Richard III" are excellent tragedies revealing the destruction, murder, torture, and cruelty of people in the name of power and dynasty. ... Rape, massacre, death, and suffer were the themes played by the characters, that gave the whole play a taste of evil never seen in reality. ... In "The history of King Richard III", Shakespeare also gave it a tragic path, however, not that inhuman like "Titus Andronicus". Richard had two murderers stab his brother Clarence to death. ... He was able to become king; nevertheless, this play is more human since Shak...

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Explication of Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's Richard III O, Curséd be the hand that made these holes. 15. ... In 1.2 of Shakespeare's Richard III, Lady Anne changes from hatred to consideration of Richard's "love.... The increased repetition reflects Anne's obsession with how Richard ruined her life, so she cannot think clearly and expresses herself in a static rhythm. ... Richard's "hand" is the direct cause of the "holes" in the fatal wounds of King Henry VI. ... Despite the deaths of her husband and father-in-law, however, she...

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Queen Margaret: The Tragedy of Richard III Far from being a play of light-hearted amusement, Richard III, in the spirit of Margaret's ominous series of predictions, is a tale of aspiration, fratricidal hostility, treachery, infidelity and bloodshed. ... Elizabeth finally realizes that the predictions have come true when King Edward dies. ... She is, in a sense, asking God to cast judgment on and even punish those who have caused her many misfortunes in life. ... Margaret cursed Richard III, praying to the heavens that he would mistake his friends for enemies, and vice v...

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Richard II is sometimes seen as a problem of conflicting values of obedience to a divinely appointed king and of a country's need for a strong, just, and ruler. ... When Richard pronounces that Mowbray and Bolingbroke shall fight to the death "At Coventry upon St. ... He is banished by Richard for a crime he did not commit, but instead of accepting it and making a new life for himself; he fights back and returns to England to take back what was rightfully his. ... "Our lands, our lives and all, are Bolingbroke's, / and nothing can we call our own but death" (III, ii, 151-152) Richard...

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A great example of historical revisionism is one of William Shakespeare's play of King Richard III performed in 1595. ... The fictional images of Richard being a villain was actually both the combined efforts of Sir Thomas More' s History of Richard III and of Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Richard III. ... Not just only a great king, Richard was actually a great lover. ... Strangely, the prince was murdered in the Tower and Richard is blamed for their death. ... "Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end/Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend- (Duchess of York, 4.4. 194-1...

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To the readers' surprise, Dr Faustus prefers the damnation, life full of misery and unhappiness, to free righteous Christian life. ... Shakespeare's Play, Richard III According to William Shakespeare's presentation, Richard III in the eponymous play is a man driven by vengeance, ambition, and a thirst for power. ... The bad character of Richard III was seen when he plotted and succeeded in eliminating three heirs to the throne before him, as well as King Edward IV himself (Shakespeare & Crowther 85). ... King Edward became aware of the plot when one of the henchmen told that R...

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It covers the life of many rulers and England's Civil War. ... Richard Neville wanted to make Richard, Duke of York, king. ... Edward reigned peacefully until his death in 1483, his son Edward succeeded him as Edward V. Edward V's uncle, Edward IV's younger brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester, usurped the throne as Richard III. Even the Yorkists supporters were outraged at Richard's bold move, especially as the boy King Edward and his younger brother Richard were imprisoned in the Tower and died mysteriously there. ...

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What never-dying honour hath he got-(III.2.105-106). ... this sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise-(IV.1.28-29). ... (III.2.18-21) Not only does he say he is changed and promises the king to be more himself, he makes a vow to seek out Hotspur and redeem himself for his past actions. Hal concludes his oath with a promise, "And I will die a hundred thousand deaths Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow- (III.2.158-159). ... He forgives Hotspur, his greatest enemy, and even laments his death. ...

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From this, we can know Herod was a bad king. ... O bosom black as death! ... When Macbeth heard the news of his wife's death, he was indifferent. ... Judas kiss means the kiss of death. Richard's flatterers had given him a Judas kiss. ...

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Between 1590-1592 Shakespeare created a series of plays known as Henry VI series, Richard III, and the Comedy of Errors, were performed. ... He remained to be an investor for the rest of his life. ... In 1595, while he was writing Romeo and Juliet and Richard II, Shakespeare came into a more productive period of his writing life. ... In 1603, king James delivered Shakespeare and his players a royal licensed, which made them as Kings Men. ... After Shakespeare's death, he left us Thirty-Eight plays, one hundred and fifty-four sonnets and two narrative poems. ...

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Afterward, he took his place in the army under the command of Prince Lionel, third son of King Edward III. ... After the war ended in 1360 with the Treaty of Bretigny, Chaucer returned to England where he became the page for King Edward III. ... For his services, the King rewards him by granting him a pitcher of wine per day for life. ... He was sent to France and Flanders to negotiate peace and the marriage of Richard with a French princess. ... After the death of his wife in 1387, he started writing The Canterbury Tales. ...

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Later in his life as a young man, Henry entered into a career of importing and exporting. ... Before it could really take effect, however, the British king, George III, vetoed the legislation. The vetoing of the case by George III propelled Henry into his defense against the rights of Virginians against the actions of an oppressive king. Henry held that government was a contract between the king and his subjects and that George III had broken the contract by attempting to deprive Virginians of their natural rights (Microsoft Corp). ... After the death of his first wife, Henry married Dorothe...

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We see the possibilities emerge in Everyman when Death comes before Everyman has a chance to redeem himself. ... We see the culmination of the destroyed safety of the Medieval world in Shakespeare's plays including Hamlet, Macbeth, Richard III, and King Lear. ... He loses everything, including his power, money, family, and life. ... Lear's life ends tragically without any kind of redemption of the Medieval sense. ... The consequences of King Lear's actions appear before death and there is no resolution to say whether or not Lear is relieved of his burden through death. ...

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sidebar GREAT WORKS OF LITERATURE From Richard III English dramatist William Shakespeare portrayed Richard III, king of England from 1483 to 1485, as bitter, deformed, and conniving. Scholars generally agree that Shakespeare villainized Richard to some degree for the enjoyment of Shakespeare's Tudor audience: Richard III was the last king of the house of York before the accession of the powerful and prosperous Tudor dynasty. In the famous opening lines of Shakespeare's Richard III (1592-1593?), Richard, then duke of Gloucester, sarcastically describes the quiet reign of his el...

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This is King James VI. ... King James VI formed a company called The King's Men. ... The plays written during this period were, The Comedy of Errors, Henry VI, Richard III, The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and King John. ... These tragedies exhibited the knowledge that life has a tragic side. ... Shakespeare's Death Astonishingly, Shakespeare died on his birthday, April 23 of 1616. ...

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In Borgia's research, she found that Humpty was a common nickname during the 1400's, and that the rhyme refers to King Richard III of England. ... IT is said that King Richard sat upon his horse ready for battle and was murdered. ... Even today the egg is a symbol of life. When Humpty Dumpty falls and breaks (dies) "all the king's men and all the king's horses" can't put Humpty Dumpty back together (bring back to life). ... Whether the truth is that they may be there to constitute the safe way to stay out of death's reach, or that they serve as metaphors for li...

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Bars discrimination in public accommodations such as hotels and restaurants; III. & IV. ... Extends the life and expands the power of the Civil Rights Commission; VI. ... Title VII was the most significant of all the sections However, when initially introduced by Kennedy prior to his death, it was only to apply to government employ-ment. ... Richard Nixon Richard Milhouse Nixon, 37th president of the United States, was born January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California. ... Martin Luther King, Sr. stressed the importance of education to King, Jr. ...

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So it also has a bit of his personal life, as it can be said that very little is known about the personal life of William Shakespeare. ... Renaissance man conceives life as a stage to be enjoyed before death comes. ... In 1593 Richard III and Romeo and Juliet. In 1594 Richard II, dream of a summer night King John, The Merchant of Venice and The Taming of the flower. ... In 1605 King Lear. ...

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In 1359-1360, Chaucer went to France with Edward III's army during the Hundred Years" War. ... In 1367, he wrote the "Book of the Duchess" about the death of Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster. ... However, only twenty-three pilgrims received a story before Chaucer's death in 1400. ... In 1389, Richard 11 regained control and Chaucer reentered the service of the crown as Clerk of the King's Works, to upkeep and repair governmental buildings in and out of London. Chaucer lived at Greenwich the last years of his life. ...

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How does actor use voice and body to add dimension and bring passages to life? ... Three other Shakespeare plays have ghosts as characters: Julius Caesar Macbeth and Richard III. ... In Act III scene 3 Hamlet becomes convinced that Claudius murdered his father. ... One good example of this is when Claudius sees his brutal murder of the king performed on stage. ... In Act III scene 5 where Hamlet, during his famous soliloquy, compares sleep with death. ...

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Because of their hunger, thirst, injuries and death to their fellow Crusaders they exploded into a lust for revenge. ... It was headed by the French king Louis the VII and the holy Roman emperor Conrad III. ... Hearing of this King Guy of Jerusalem decided to march to Tiberias and fight Saladin's forces (Biel 90). ... The Third Crusade was lead by King Richard the lionhearted of England (Jordan 10). ... So Richard decided to ...

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