Richard the Duke of Gloucester and eventually crowned King Richard III is deformed in body and twisted in mind. ... The opening scene has Richard addressing the audience through a soliloquy. ... The audience of Richard III experiences a complex, ambiguous, and highly changeable relationship with Richard. ... Richard outlines his plots and confesses all his evil thoughts to the audience through soliloquies. ... After Richard is crowned king and Richmond begins his uprising, Richard's soliloquies end. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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.... This anaphora of "cursed" makes the intention of her soliloquy clear, and they also unknowingly reflect the theme of the play of how Richard and those around him are and will be cursed. ... The child, like Richard, is "ugly" and "unnatural," which mirrors Richard's physical appearance, but these terms also make ...

• Word Count: 1444
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In Shakespeare's tragic play Richard III, Richard plays a man of manipulation, evilness, lack of morality, and swiftness, which are all the qualities Lucifer possesses. ... But Richard III is the only villain of the three who will truly reach their downfall. ... Richard views love as a political tool rather than an emotion, it was intended for. ... During act one, where Richard attempts to woo Lady Anne, he succeeds by saying, "Your beauty was the cause of that effect Your beauty, that did haunt me in my sleep" (I.ii.126-127), this shows Richard accusing Lady Anne's beaut...

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Hotspur's soliloquy comes just after the meeting between Worcester, and the Douglas. ... Sir Richard Vernon soon enters the scene and reveals news that Hal is on his way to attack Shrewsbury with seven thousand men. ... Hotspur begins his soliloquy, almost interrupting Sir Richard Vernon's praise of Hal. ... A similar random rhyme can also be found in Act I scene III where Hotspur become easily excited at the tales of Worcester. ... In conclusion, Hotspur's feelings and emotions are evident from this specific soliloquy. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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 unattractive physique used by Shakespeare makes Richard III look like an anti-hero, and as a result, other characters and the audience repelled him. ... In the opening soliloquy, Richard III is shown as an anti-hero, and he reveals his determination to prove himself as a villain (1.1.30).This is different when compared to the case of Faustus who was presented as a brilliant man of science who had s...

• Word Count: 4910
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Audiences today think that the soliloquy is an outdated and embarrassing device" "It is the soliloquy that gives Shakespeare and his actor a stranglehold on their audience. ... However, the quote referring to the soliloquy being outdated, states just that; the soliloquy. Not Shakespeare's soliloquies but soliloquies on the whole. ... I don't think that it is a mistake that Shakespeare has given many of his main soliloquies to the villains of his plays, for example, Macbeth, Hamlet and even King Richard III. Where exactly would we be, we wonder, if we never really knew properly w...

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Iago is the first and only (until thus far) character to present a soliloquy in the play; his morals are portrayed through these soliloquies so the audience can have a precursor to what will come. Shakespeare uses the exact same personality traits for Iago as he did for King Richard in Richard III and from experience with that play I believe Iago to be the exact same wicked character. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The overlaying emotion throughout his soliloquy is grief and pain. ... 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. ... In Act III scene 5 where Hamlet, during his famous soliloquy, compares sleep with death. ... In Act III scene 3 Hamlet says, "That his soul may be as damn'd and black As hell, whereto it goes." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Later in Act III, Henry IV chastises Hal for not being respected in the public opinion in the way Hotspur is. ... What never-dying honour hath he got-(III.2.105-106). ... But alas, he surprises us all with a assertive soliloquy in which he sets the stage for his future growth. ... (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). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A soliloquy taken from Act 2 Scene 2, which originally comes during the "fishmonger" dialogue, powerfully introduces Ethan Hawke's characterisation of a maladjusted film-student Hamlet. ... With obvious influence from the stylistically modern Richard III (1996) and the audacious Romeo + Juliet (1996), Almereyda creates both a media saturated world and media-obsessed prince. ... As a creator he is seen throughout playing and replaying his soliloquies. ... The studied irony of positioning the Prince in this setting is one, which was commented upon largely in reviews, and is a clever co...

• Word Count: 2290
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When the dauphin teaches the duke and Huck Hamlet's soliloquy, he confuses lines from Richard III and Macbeth and simply misquotes Hamlet. Even in the first and most famous line of the soliloquy where Hamlet should say "To be, or not to be; that is the question," the dauphin teaches it "To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin" (Twain 152). ...

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• Has Bibliography
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Being his most noteworthy work, The Spanish Tragedy is responsible for the introduction of an abundance of game changing ideals such as "the iambic pentameter, the five act structure, the play within a play, causality, the Machiavellian villain, the soliloquy, the blank verse, and the Revenge Tragedy" (Nance); single handedly opening new doors and paving uncharted roads in Elizabethan Theatre for other writers to follow in the years to come. ... Shakespearean characters such as Iago and Richard III are the ones who are primarily envisioned when pondering the essence and embodiment of...

• Word Count: 1285
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Graduate