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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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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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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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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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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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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Throughout his whole life, Saladin lived by this principle. ... After that battle, finally, Syria surrendered and Saladin became their king. ... On July 4, 1187, Saladin faced Guy of Lusignan, King Consort of Jerusalem and Raymond III of Tripoli at the Battle of Hattin. ... As time went by, there were less men standing, and more lying on the ground, dead, some blood fresher than others, and some deaths cleaner than others. ... Not long after Richard left, Saladin died of a fever at Damascus. ...

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One was in 1135 during the reign of King Stephen, the other was 415 years later with the death of Henry VIII. ... In a way, the death of William was the cause of the civil war. ... These oaths were a source of much controversy after Henry's death. ... Henry had a falling out with her father towards the end of his life. ... King Stephen I Stephen was the son of Adela, daughter of King William I so he did have a right to the throne. ...

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His Life Due to the lack of preserved documentation, very little is known about William Shakespeare's life. ... Due to his family's status in the community Young William most likely attended the King Edward VI School, a free grammar school in Stratford. ... Anne, the daughter of Richard Hathaway, was twenty six and pregnant at the time of her marriage to William. ... Led by actor Richard Burbage, The Lord Chamberlain's Men was a well-known, albeit new, theatre company in London. ... The group averaged two plays per year and Burbage played the starring roles such as Richa...

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Leading the SCLC was a young preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. ... After King's success with The Montgomery Bus Boycott he helped form the SCLC. ... King's words were different than most African American preachers of the day. ... Initially, King led mass meetings and then eventually organized marches in Selma. In January of 1965, King led four hundred marchers to the county courthouse. ...

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The most conservative elements within the British government were enthusiastic supporters of British superiority, unabashed, fervently loyal subjects of their King, George III. ... A career in the military, if survived, was a virtual assurance of achieving success in life and societal position. ... George III and Lord George Germain, the cabinet minister principally accountable for the conduct of the war, were so confident of victory that Britain's success was the centerpiece of the King's speech for the opening of Parliament. ... Four British leaders figure prominently: Charles, E...

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His death made the way for a new East Anglian king, Anna, who Bede described as a good man blessed with four holy daughters. ... On his death, c.655, she retired to the Isle of Ely, which was her wedding gift from Tondberht. In 660, for political reasons, she was married to Egfrith, the fifteen year old king of Northumbria who was several years younger than her. ... According to Bede, Etheldreda was succeeded as Abbess of Ely by her elder sister Sexburga, widow of Eorcenberth, King of Kent. 16 years after Etheldreda's death her sister wanted her body moved into a new coffin and placed in ...

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It was separated from the land mass of Europe around 6700 BC before snakes and other varieties of plant life were common in the country. ... (Ireland was probably populated before the Ice Age finished but most would have perished during the Ice Age and only the most hardy of life forms would have survived.) ... For one fleeting moment the tribes were united under the High King Brian Boru in the 9th Century but this only lasted until his death. ... After his death his disciples ensured that Pagan Ireland was for ever more to be a Christian Celtic country. ...

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Describing it as the biggest ever pedophile sweep in Switzerland, officials said the suspects included teachers, school psychologists, law enforcement officers and high ranking civil servants.15 [In 1993,] within months of Janet Reno's promise to "protect our children from abuse,"" 16 [she] tried to redefine child pornography to make it more difficult for prosecutors to go after NAMBLA child molesters.17 Unbelievably, the position taken by Attorney General Janet Reno is that the producers and distributors of this wretched material cannot be prosecuted unless children are depicted lasci...

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According to the Prussian constitution, the parliament had neither the power to initiate legislation (unlike Canada's parliament which does have this power), nor reject legislation brought forth by the king or his ministers (the executive). ... King Wilhelm I and his minister of war rejected this liberal attempt to change the class composition of the Prussian officer corps, and the parliament threatened to veto the military budget. ... Biz now held incredible power in his hands; he could not be turfed in a popular election, he could only be dismissed by the king. ... Although Biz got th...

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