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Richard III
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  • A thoroughly unpleasant king, Richard III, rails against his situation by saying, his voice dripping with sarcasm, "Now is the winter of our discontent, / Made glorious summer by this son of York."†   (source)
  • Consider some examples: Diomedes and Odysseus stealing the Thracian horses in The Iliad, the Lone Ranger waving from astride the rearing Silver, Richard III crying out for a horse, Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda roaring down the road on their choppersin Easy Rider.†   (source)
  • Then she gets up and does a full court curtsy out of Richard III, with the women shoppers having tea in Murray's gawking at her.†   (source)
  • He had been born slightly crooked—a clumsy delivery by the midwife—like Richard III.†   (source)
  • It does not seem to me so genuine grief when some tyrannous Richard III.†   (source)
  • There are all ages here: brown, wrinkled, white-haired dowagers who are able to go back, and still back, down the stream of time, and recall the crowning of Richard III. and the troublous days of that old forgotten age; and there are handsome middle-aged dames; and lovely and gracious young matrons; and gentle and beautiful young girls, with beaming eyes and fresh complexions, who may possibly put on their jewelled coronets awkwardly when the great time comes; for the matter will be…†   (source)
  • Richard III, too, is delightful as the whimsical comedian who stops a funeral to make love to the corpse's widow; but when, in the next act, he is replaced by a stage villain who smothers babies and offs with people's heads, we are revolted at the imposture and repudiate the changeling.†   (source)
  • Richard III When the Black Knight—for it becomes necessary to resume the train of his adventures—left the Trysting-tree of the generous Outlaw, he held his way straight to a neighbouring religious house, of small extent and revenue, called the Priory of Saint Botolph, to which the wounded Ivanhoe had been removed when the castle was taken, under the guidance of the faithful Gurth, and the magnanimous Wamba.†   (source)
  • Thus Richard III.†   (source)
  • Richard III, I.iv. i95-97 199-200.†   (source)
  • "I really believe," said he, "I could be fool enough at this moment to undertake any character that ever was written, from Shylock or Richard III down to the singing hero of a farce in his scarlet coat and cocked hat.†   (source)
  • I daresay you remember that the Bishop of Ely's house is mentioned in Shakespeare's play of King Richard III.†   (source)
  • They are generally Richard III. whales, with dromedary humps, and very savage; breakfasting on three or four sailor tarts, that is whaleboats full of mariners: their deformities floundering in seas of blood and blue paint.†   (source)
  • In "Richard III" one finds "I never was /nor never/ will be"; in "Measure for Measure,"†   (source)
  • You know Manningham's story of the burgher's wife who bade Dick Burbage to her bed after she had seen him in Richard III and how Shakespeare, overhearing, without more ado about nothing, took the cow by the horns and, when Burbage came knocking at the gate, answered from the capon's blankets: William the conqueror came before Richard III.†   (source)
  • , Richard III.†   (source)
  • The Life and Death of King Richard III by William Shakespeare [Collins edition] ACT I. SCENE I. London.†   (source)
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