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List the themes of Elizabethan history plays |
1. Moral truth and lessons for the present 2. Tolerance of rhetorical invention and anachronism 3. Providence and the fall of princes 4. Machiavelli and the rise of 'politic' history 5. Nation: country; people; kings |
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How many of Shakespeare's plays were grouped under 'histories' in the 1623 Folio? |
Roughly a third |
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What were histories called in the Quarto? |
Called them tragedies - most had tragedy or tragical in their titles |
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What were histories concerned with? |
The reign and fall of monarchs. Also focused on the aristocracy and princes. |
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What was the place of Richard III in Shakespeare's English History plays? |
This was the last in a (unintentional) sequence of plays about the Wars of the Roses. |
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How does Emma Smith describe our attraction to Richard? |
1. 'audience masochism'. 2. 'Part of the audience's role in relation to Richard is encapsulated in this feminized, enchanted revulsion.' |
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How can Richard wooing Anne be seen as comic? |
Festive inversion; we know it isn't true (maybe this is superiority comedy) |
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When was Richard III first performed? |
Early 1590s |
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What materials did Shakespeare use to write the play? |
Chronicle histories and Sir Thomas More's History of King Richard III - very pro-Tudor |
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How was Richard III identified in the Quarto (1597)? |
Tragedy; contains a short synopsis outlining Richard's life and deeds |
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What character type was Richard based on, according to Francis Mares? |
Vice: - may have been the major actor of the company - longest single part - intimate relationship with audience; cracks jokes with them - introduces other characters, gives his opinion of them to us - through his comments, he predicts/foretells the outcome - lets us into his confidence |
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How does F. J. Levy describes Machiavelli's goal for The Prince? |
'having cut the prince off from the restrictions of political morality, Machiavelli now gave him power as well to challenge providence.' |
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What is the place of act 1 scene 2? |
1. In 1.1, Richard tells us of his plans; to marry Lady Anne; he has made his brothers, the King and Clarence, hate each other; Richard intends to murder the imprisoned Clarence. 2. Throughout Act 1, we hear of the King's failing health and the question of succession. 2. 1.2, Lady Anne carries the coffin of Henry VI, one of Richard's victims. Richard comes and successfully woos her. 3. 1.3, Richard argues with the Queen and her family, the Woodville. They are all confronted by Queen Margaret, cursing each of them for what they did to the Lancastrians in the civil war. Richard highers Clarence's killers - C dies in 1.4 |
