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1939: Universal Pictures—on a horror tear during the decade (DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, etc.)—made their own version of Richard III, TOWER OF LONDON, nixing Shakespeare’s poetry & replacing it with horror stars Boris Karloff & Vincent Price.

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"I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me"

Richard III 1.1 #ShakespeareSunday

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme: Richard III

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. Richard III, A4S4, #ShakespeareSunday #RichardIII #GilmoreGirls #RoryGilmore #GilmoreGirls25

[Enter the two Murderers]

Richard III I, 4 #ShakespeareSunday

Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame. Richard III, A5S1, #ShakespeareSunday #RichardIII #GilmoreGirls #LorelaiGilmore #GilmoreGirls25

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.

Richard III V, 3 #ShakespeareSunday

What do I fear? Myself? There's none else by. Richard III, A5S3, #ShakespeareSunday #RichardIII #GilmoreGirls #TaylorDoose #MissPatty #GilmoreGirls25

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic. Richard III, A1S3, #ShakespeareSunday #RichardIII #GilmoreGirls #SookieStJames #GilmoreGirls25

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

Richard III III, 1 #ShakespeareSunday

It is a quarrel just and reasonable,
To be revenged on him that slew my husband.

Richard III I, 2 #ShakespeareSunday

Now is the winter of our discontent

Richard III I, 1 #shakespearesunday

To serve me well, you all should do me duty,
Teach me to be your queen, and you my subjects:
O, serve me well, and teach yourselves that duty!

Richard III I, 3 #ShakespeareSunday

Tis better, sir, than to be brief tedious. Richard III, A1S4, #ShakespeareSunday #RichardIII #GilmoreGirls #EmilyGilmore #GilmoreGirls25

Well met, my lord; I am glad to see your honour.

Richard III III, 2 #ShakespeareSunday

What black magician conjures up this fiend,
To stop devoted charitable deeds?

Richard III I, 2 #ShakespeareSunday

Richard III: But didst thou see them dead?

Sir James Tyrrel: I did, my lord.

Richard III: And buried, gentle Tyrrel?

Sir James Tyrrel: The chaplain of the Tower hath buried them; But how or in what place I do not know.

Richard III IV, 3 #ShakespeareSunday

ANNE: Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.

RICHARD III: But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

- William Shakespeare, "Richard III" (Act 1, Scene 2)
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dogs bark at me as I halt by them

Richard III
Act I Scene 1
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