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The atmosphere at court is poisonous: The established nobles are at odds with the upwardly mobile relatives of Richard orders two murderers to kill Clarence in the tower. KS3 English Richard III learning resources for adults, children, parents and teachers. Summary Read a Plot Overview of the entire play or a scene by scene Summary and Analysis. Puns, a Shakespearean staple, are especially well represented in the scene where Richard tries to persuade Queen Elizabeth to woo her daughter on his behalf. Act 1, Scene 1.
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the son of the Duke of York.) He also sees "wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, inestimable stones, unvalued jewels". In the end, Henry of Richmond raises an army, kills Richard in battle, and becomes King Henry VII. Clarence adds that some of the jewels were in the skulls of the dead. Teachers and parents!

Act 1. This action on Richard's part not only keeps him in control of the dramatic action of the play, but also of how the audience sees him: in a somewhat positive light, or as the protagonist.In the earlier acts of the play, too, the role of the antagonist is filled by that of the old Lancastrian queen, Margaret, who is reviled by the Yorkists and whom Richard manipulates and condemns in Act I, Scene III.

Jealous and crippled, Richard of Gloucester wants to be King of England and uses manipulation and deceit to achieve his goal. Clarence wakes and pleads with the murderers, saying that men have no right to obey other men's requests for murder, because all men are under the rule of God not to commit murder. Click on any scene below for a side-by-side translation from the original Shakespeare into modern English. Richard III is a play by William Shakespeare that was first performed in 1633. Buckingham: "No, so God help me, they spake not a word ...") Richard III. Buckingham assists Richard's rise to power by helping persuade the Lord Mayor and the people of London to support their faction. Edward IV soon dies, leaving as Protector his brother Richard, who sets about removing the final obstacles to his accession. Revise and learn about the plot of Shakespeare’s play Richard III with BBC Bitesize KS3 English Literature. Richard III follows the events portrayed in Henry VI Part 3. Three women mourn their state: Margaret, former queen of Henry VI; Queen Elizabeth, Edward's wife; and the widowed Duchess of York, Richard's mother. King Edward IV is ill, and Richard is appointed to govern in his place, aided by Lord Hastings and the Duke of Buckingham.

Then he plans to marry Lady Anne Neville. Both sides arrive for a final battle at The Folio is longer than the Quarto and contains some fifty additional passages amounting to more than two hundred lines. Actually understand Richard III. When disease kills Edward, his brother is proclaimed King Richard III.Richard has Lord Hastings, the Lord Chamberlain, executed for attempting to thwart him. Margaret curses Richard and the kingdom.To counter any claims to the crown, Richard confines his nephews, the young Prince of Wales and his brother, in the Tower of London. Scene 1. Our Teacher Editions can help. However, the Quarto contains some twenty-seven passages amounting to about thirty-seven lines that are absent from the Folio.At one time, it was thought that the Quarto represented a separate revision of the play by Shakespeare.
Read Richard III here, with side-by-side No Fear translations into modern English. The murderers imply Clarence is a hypocrite because, as one says, "thou ... unripped'st the bowels of thy sovereign's son [Edward] whom thou wast sworn to cherish and defend."