EDWARD: Richard I will create thee Duke of Gloucester
And George of Clarence.
RICHARD: Let me be Duke of Clarence, George of Gloucester,
For Gloucester’s dukedom is too ominous.
ED: Tut, that’s a foolish observation.
Richard be Duke of Gloucester.

HENRY VI, pt. 3, 2.6
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And Shakespeare 'pitied' social climbers (??)

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“I am too childish-foolish for this world.”
-Richard III
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“How are we park’d?”
HENRY IV, pt. 1, 4.2

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Was ever woman in this humour wooed?
Was ever woman in this humour won?
—RICHARD III, Act 1 Scene 2

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(Kristin Scott Thomas as Lady Anne in Richard Loncraine's 1995 film of Richard III)

Come, lead me to the block; bear him my head:
They smile at me who shortly shall be dead.
Richard III
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If you will live, lament; if die, be brief.
Richard III
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"Tear falling pity dwells not from this eye" ...

Richard 111

Act5 Scene3 ... Final soliloquy

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"A dream of what thou wert, a breath, a bubble, a sign of dignity, a garish flag, to be the aim of every dangerous shot." ~ Richard III (A4,S4).
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What do I fear? myself? there's none else by:
Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I. - RIchard III (A5, S3) #ShakespeareSunday

Was ever woman in this humor wooed?
Was ever woman in this humor won?

Richard III (1.2) #ShakespeareSunday

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"No beast so fierce but knows some type of pity.." 🦍
Richard 3 1.2 #kingkong

Harp not on that string.
—RICHARD III, Act 4 Scene 4

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#Disney #Aristocats

"Grim-visaged War hath smoothed his wrinkled front."
Richard III (A1,S1).
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Since every Jack became a gentleman
There's many a gentle person made a Jack.
—RICHARD III, Act 1 Scene 3

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(Suranne Jones in #GentlemanJack)

“Fires burn blue …
Methought the souls of all that I had murdered
Came to my tent.” (Richard III)

Candles dim & lightbulbs flicker in the presence of spooks. But in addition to the ominous, ubiquitous Corpse Candles, there are a number of other ghostly glows. [More
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"Be patient, they are friends, Ratcliff and Lovel."

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Alas, I rather hate myself
For hateful deeds committed by myself.
I am a villain: yet I lie. I am not.
Richard III
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Prepare thy battle early in the morning.
Richard III
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(stage directions)
[Enter a Priest]
~ Richard III (A3,S2).
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