Themes with quotes

• fate/free will - FAMOUS LINE in 1st soliloquy (act1sc1)


  'I am determined to prove a villain
• fate/free will - has R's deformity led to his evil? (act1sc1)

  'I, that am rudely stamped and want love's majesty
• fate/free will - R won't leave things to fate (act2sc2)


  'Marked you not how that the guilty kindred of the Queen looked pale when they did hear of Clarence' death? God will revenge it.
• fate/free will - did R's mother create this villain?


  'And make me die a good old man. This is the butt-end of a mother's blessing; I marvel that her grace did leave it out
• family - QLiz worried if Ed dies (act1sc3)


  'If he were dead, what would betide on me?
• family - Ed attempts to resolve disputes (act2sc1)

  'Take each other's hand; dissemble not your hatred. Swear your love
• family - effect of Ed's death (act2sc2)

  'Edward, my lord, thy son, our king, is dead. Why grow the branches when the root is gone? Why wither not the leaves that want their sap?
• women (curses) - Anne (act1sc2)


  'O, cursed be the hand that made these holes; cursed the heart that had the heart to do it'

  'If ever he have child, abortive be it, prodigious and untimely brought to light, whose ugly and unnatural aspect may fright the hopeful mother at the view
• women (curses) - QM (act1sc3)


  'Can curses pierce the clouds and enter heaven? Why then give way, dull clouds to my quick curses'

  'O, let them hurl down their indignation on thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace
• women (r's attitude) - blaming QLiz for Clarence's imprisonment (act1sc1)


  'My Lady Grey, his wife, Clarence, 'tis she that tempers him to this extremity
• women (r's attitude) - insults QM (act1sc3)

  'Have done thy charm, thou hateful, withered hag
• women (grief) - QLiz (act2sc2)


  [with her hair about her ears]

  'Who shall hinder me to wail and weep , to chide my fortune and torment myself?
• women (grief) - Duchess + competition (act2sc2)


  'She for an Edward weeps and so do I. I, for a Clarence weep, so doth she ...
• loyalty - buckingham after QM (act1sc3)

  'Peace, peace, for shame, if not for charity'

  'My hair doth stand on end to hear her curses
• loyalty - buck after Clarence's death (act2sc1)


  'Look i so pale, Lord Dorset, as the rest
• loyalty - buck + litany of epithets (act2sc2)


  'my other self, my counsels consistory, my oracle, my prophet, my dear cousin.
• loyalty - clarence to R (act1sc4)

  'I will send you to my brother Gloucester, who shall reward you'

  'O no, he loves me and loves me dear'

  'O, do not slander him, for he is kind
• betrayal/deception - initial plans (act1sc1)

  'If King Edward be as true and just as I am subtle, false + treacherous, this day should Clarence closely be mewed up
• betrayal/deception - Duchess about r's deceit (act2sc2)


  'Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shape, And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice. He is my son, ay, and therein my shame, Yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit.
• supernatural - anne cursing r, semantic field of witchcraft (act1sc2)


  'The death of thee than I can wish to wolves, to spiders, toads or any creeping venomed thing
• supernatural - QM + her power (act1sc3)


  'You bow like subjects, yet that, by you deposed, you quake like rebels
• supernatural - prophetic nature of GC's dream (act1sc4)


  'Methought that Gloucester stumbled, and in falling struck me
• guilt - dreams, GC (act1sc4)


  'I have passed a miserable night, so full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights'

  'Clarence is come, fleeting, false, perjured Clarence, that stabbed me in the field by Tewkesbury
• guilt - murderers (actsc4)


  'The urging of that word 'Judgement' hath bred a kind of remorse in me' → 'Zounds, he dies! I had forgot the reward'

  'How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands of this most grievous murder -
• Guilt - R's Conscience


  'O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
• Betrayal/Deception - QM's Manipulation


  'I'll have her; but I will not keep her long
• Supernatural - Ghostly Visits

  'The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom
• Power - R's Ambition


  'I am determined to prove a villain
• Fate/Free Will - Prophecies and Omens

  'G' hath sent to warn us we should not love
• Loyalty - Buckingham's Loyalty


  'My other self, my counsels consistory, my oracle, my prophet, my dear cousin.