The Tragedy of Richard the ThirdT.Y. Crowell & Company, 1910 - 309 Seiten |
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Anne ANON blood bracketed Brother Buck Buckingham Catesby Clarence COLL Crowne Curse daughter dayes death Dorset doth dreame Duke Earle Editors Edward Enter Exeunt Exit eyes Father feare Folio footnote friends gentle Ghost give Glocester Gloster Grace gracious hand hath haue heart Heaven heere Henry Henry VI Holinshed House of Lancaster house of York King Richard KTLY kyng live London looke Lord Chamberlaine Lord Hastings Lord Stanley Madam Maior Margaret morrow Mother murther night Noble Play POPE Prince printed protectour Pursuivant Quarto Queene quene Ratcliffe Rich Richard III Richm Richmond Rivers Rowe Royall sayes Scene selfe Shakespeare sleepe Sonne soule Soveraigne speake STEEV Stony Stratford syllables tell thee THEOB thinke thou thought Tower True Tragedie Unckle Unkle unto VAUGHAN WARB William Shakespeare word yong Yorke
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Seite 177 - The Tragedy of King Richard the third. Containing, His treacherous Plots against his brother Clarence : the pittiefull murther of his innocent nephewes : his tyrannicall vsurpation : with the whole course of his detested life, and most deserued death.
Seite 297 - From stories of this nature, both ancient and modern, which abound, the poets also, and some English, have been in this point so mindful of decorum as to put never more pious words in the mouth of any person than of a tyrant.
Seite 35 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Seite 19 - Was ever woman in this humour woo'd ? Was ever woman in this humour won ? I'll have her, but I will not keep her long.
Seite 302 - Richard perpetrates several murders, but as the poet has not marked them with any distinguishing circumstances, they need not be enumerated on this occasion. Some of these he commits in his passage to power, others after he has seated himself on the throne. Ferociousness and hypocrisy are the prevailing features of his character, and as he has no one honourable or humane principle to combat, there is no opening for the poet to develope those secret workings of conscience, which he has so naturally...
Seite 298 - Shakespeare, who introduces the person of Richard the Third, speaking in as high a strain of piety and mortification as is uttered in any passage of this book,* and sometimes to the same sense and purpose with some words in this place : ' I intended,' saith he, ' not only to oblige my friends, but my enemies.
Seite xxix - Bastard without a father to acknowledge it ; true it is that my plays are not exposed to the world in volumes, to bear the title of works (as others *) : one reason is, that many of them by shifting and change of companies, have been negligently lost. Others of them are still retained in the hands of some actors, who think it against their peculiar profit to have them come in print, and a third that it never was any great ambition in me to be in this kind voluminously read.
Seite 34 - I have pass'da miserable night, So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights, That, as I am a christian faithful man, ' • I would not spend another such a night, Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days ; So full of dismal terror was the time.