...plenty, and fair prosperous days! Act v Sc iv The play's characters Richard Richard's self-knowledge And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain...villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Act i Sc i Richard Shakespeare's original audience already knew what to expect when they first saw...

...at me as I halt by them." For this reason, Richard wreaked havoc on the world. As Shakespeare said, "[S]ince I cannot prove a lover, to entertain these...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain." 88 dulged in self-destructive behavior. Having a disability, in other words, entitled Richard to be...

...at me as I halt by them." For this reason, Richard wreaked havoc on the world. As Shakespeare said, "[S]ince I cannot prove a lover, to entertain these...fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain."88 dulged in self-destructive behavior. Having a disability, in other words, entitled Richard...

...as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: describe at length And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken...

...made "to court an amorous looking glass" and has "no delight to pass away the time," Unless to see my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity....villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. (Ii 14-1 6, 25-31) Richard Ill's monologue is not unlike Adolf Hitler's speech to his General Staff...

...and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; Have no delight to pass away the time And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover To entertain...villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. (Li. 16-30) As in the defenses in the pamphlet controversy about women where men's misogyny is blamed...

...hunchback, in a time of peace with a "true and just" king on the throne, his possibilities are limited: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover To entertain...villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. KING RICHARD III ( 1 . 1 , 28-3 1 ) Richard decides to create his own destiny. He announces to the...

...sportive tricks." He speaks of the action of the play being motivated and controlled from within him: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover To entertain...am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasure of these days. (28-31)3 As critics of all persuasions have continually noted, the interest...

...after a ball or from the window of my travelling carriage, and I always considered it disagreeable. 4 I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid . . . 5 Well I'd knocked off 'bout thirty o' their number when I realised I was out o' bullets. Just...

...novel's fourteen narratorial uses of vanity directly describe Henry Crawford; two apply to Mary. 4 Cf. 'I am determined to prove a villain /And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid ..." Richard HI, Act I, scene i. 5 It is also perhaps worth noting that Crawford was a theatrical name...