03-29-2024, 08:12 PM
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Joh.n Spen.cer
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Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 1,952
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Quote:
Originally Posted by G1911
In the play, through trickery and depravity while posing as a devout and modest man, Richard makes himself King illegitimately. As part of the saga he has his nephew, the rightful king, murdered in the tower where a King was traditionally to stay before his coronation. Richard's reign is short, and he dies ingloriously, deserted by many of his followers on the field, begging for a horse.
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots I have laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams
I presume the literary illusion was to the dubious ethics and doubtful legitimacy of the self-proclaimed king's.
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Greg, spot on, if a bit over-the-top analogy by me. A couple of unpleasant incidents made me draw the comparison.
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