...extenuates and justifies his choice of villainy in terms of his natural and acquired disadvantages: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover To entertain...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain ... (I. i. 28- 30) The soliloquy suggests, in short, not only the freely-willed suppression of conscience...

...spared no man's death whose life withstood his purpose." Richard himself wasn't shy about his motives: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover To entertain...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasure of these days. Plots I have laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies,...

...scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them . . . therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.'"' How like Li Guoxiang's is this derivation (and not mere...

...play's outset, on his intent to hecome a scoundrel by setting Clarence and the king against each othet: To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villam. And hate the idle pleasures of these days. 11.11 In these hnes is manifest the "hidden self-knowledge"...

...sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them Why, I, in...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain . . . KING RICHARD III King Richard III, the only English ruler since the Norman Conquest to have been...

...father's death. Since peace has robbed Richard of his identity he will entirely refashion himself: I in this weak piping time of peace Have no delight...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain. (I. i. 24-30) To achieve that end, he is endowed with several of the author's own attributes, such...

...clear: Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity....well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain. (I. i. 24— 30) 18. On Henry's skillful theatricality in this scene, see Graham Bradshaw, Misrepresentations:...

...piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun 27 And descant on mine own deformity. And therefore,...a lover To entertain these fair well-spoken days, 30 I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. 32 Plots have I laid,...

...words; she wouldn't allow it. Kilcaim smiled, that sensuous, dark smile that made her breath stop. " 'Since I cannot prove a lover / To entertain these fair well-spoken days, /1 am determined to prove a villain / And hate the idle pleasure of these days.' " She shook her head,...

...Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings. Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. . . . 58 Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Richard, Richard III. 1, 1 Take-Away Ideas * The words we...