Richard lll
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Richard lll A4 s4 lines 199- 342
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Richard lll. A4 s4 lines 199-342. Two characters in this section. Richard. Queen Elizabeth. What does Richard want?. What Queen Elizabeth does want?. To marry Queen Elizabeth's daughter also called Elizabeth. To stop Richard marrying her daughter. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Richard lll
A4 s4 lines 199-342
Two characters in this section
The audience wants to know who will win
Richard Queen Elizabeth
What does Richard want? What Queen Elizabeth does want?
To marry Queen Elizabeth's daughter
also called-Elizabeth
To stop Richardmarrying her daughter.
In some ways this is similar to section 1
In section 1 Richard was trying to get
Lady Anne to marry him, after
murdering her husband
In section 2 Richard is asking Queen
Elizabeth if he can marry her daughter,
Elizabeth after he has
murdered her sons
Will he be successful this time?
Why marry Elizabeth? Because Richmond wants to marry her- it will strengthen his claim to the throne
His wife Anne is dead
Richard tries to take command of the situation
Stay, madam. I must talk a word with you.
But Elizabethknows what he is after
I have no more sons…for thee to slaughter!
praying nuns, not weeping queens –
She says her daughters will be…
She warns Richard to keep away
level not to hit their lives.Don’t aim
How does Richard try and win her over?
With compliments about her daughter Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.
Elizabeth threatens to say that her daughter is illegitimate
Slander myself as false to Edward’s bed,
Why might this stop Richard wanting to marry her? Her life is safest
only in her birth.
He argues back
Elizabeth points out that birth didn’t save her sons
Richard protests his innocence
You speak as if that I had slain my cousins.
Elizabeth responds angrily
Cousins, indeed! And by their uncle cozened – Of comfort, kingdom, kindred, freedom, life!
She picks up on cousins cheatedPlays on the word
The alliteration builds up the rhythm
To the powerful conclusionto the line
It shows thatElizabeth willstand up to
RichardShe’s angry at her loss andprotective of her daughter
Elizabeth accuses Richard: he is responsible for the death of her sons
He may not have held the knife that..
lanced their tender hearts,
But he gave the order
Her grief is so wild that she wishes
my nails were anchored in thine eyes
Elizabeth has been provoked and is now on the attack
I intend more good to you or yours Than ever you or yours by me were harmed!
Richard lies to cover upHe’s just had the princes murdered
What tone of voice would the actors use to say these lines?
Richard is trying to win Elizabeth over by making promises for her children
dignity and height of fortune, advancement
But Elizabeth rebuffs him
Richard is devious - he hasn’t yet mentioned marriage or her daughter
endow a child of thineHe keepsit vague
he continues to declare his innocence
Up to some scaffold, there to lose their heads? She’s sarcastic
Which thou supposest I have done to thee.
Richard now becomes more direct
from my soul I love thy daughter.Elizabeth plays on words in her reply
That thou dost love my daughter ‘from’ thy soul. So from thy soul’s love didst thou love her brothers,
Elizabethuses ‘from’
in the sense of“far away”
When Richard suggests he will make her
daughter his Queen, Elizabeth is contemptuous
What, thou?
Familiar, dismissive
Richard suggests Elizabeth can teach him how to woo her daughter
Elizabeth’s response is ironic
Send to her, by the man that slew her brothers, A pair of bleeding hearts. Thereon engrave
‘Edward’ and ‘York’. Then haply will she weep.
Richard
Richard knows he’s being mocked
Say that I did all this for love of her. When he tried this line earlier with
Lady Anne it workedBut not this time
Why hasn’t it worked this time?
Richard tries to convince Queen Elizabeth that he should marry her daughter
If I did take the kingdom from your sons, To make amends I’ll give it to your daughter.
Almost admits he killed the princes
This is unlikelyto convinceElizabeth
An unsophisticated
argument
Richard sees things in terms of the throne
Richard never refers to her by name
He also saysa grandmother
is similar to a mother
They are as children but one step below, Another
unconvincing argument
All this does is emphasise that Richard has killed her sons
Up until now Richard has been antagonistic to the Queen’s family
He promises to call the Queen's
son Dorset, “brother”and give him
high promotions and great dignity.
Richard becomes lyrical
The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transformed to orient pearl,
He wants Elizabeth to woo her
daughter for him
Acquaint the Princess With the sweet silent hours of marriage joys.
Ironic when we consider what has happened to his wife Anne
Richard’s speech builds up to a climaxHe boasts that he will
beat the rebel BuckinghamHe sees himself as
the conquering heroBound with triumphant garlands will I come, And lead thy daughter to a conqueror’s bed –Links victory in
battle to victory in love
But the Queen is unconvincedhe that slew her brothers and her uncles?
Richmond marries her at the end of the play.
At the end of this section Richard has
not persuaded the Queen. He does not marry her
daughter Elizabeth.
