Richard III : by Shakespeare, the background of which is the conflict between the rival houses of York & Lancaster, known as the Wars of the Roses. The play is dominated Richard, brother of the Yorkist king Edward IV.
... that hath his quarrel just And he but naked though locked up in steel Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted, we cannot but feel that we are listening to the same poetic voice as in Richard III shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond. or in Julius Caesar ...
... up for pathos, too eloquent and full of unchildlike sentimentality & posing. Children are fond of posing and children are sentimental, but not in that way. As for the Princes in King Henry VI and Richard III no real lover of children could endure them; one feels almost thankful to the crookback for mercifully putting them out of the way. Nor is Constance a sympathetic figure; her shrieking, her rant ...
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