List of Richard II quotations. Divided into themes of overreaching, inevitability, moral growth, hamartia - excess, ignorance, Carlisle, identity, aversion to violence, Bolingbroke as a foil, Bolingbroke as the same as Richard, Gaunt and Richard as replaceable. Perfect for revising for the Aspects ...
Richard II Quotations
Overreaching
‘the unstooping firmness of my upright soul’
‘divine his downfall.’
‘like glistering Phaeton.’
Inevitability
‘Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings and how they
were deposed.’
‘Some unborn sorrow ripe in Fortune’s womb.’
‘Long mayst thou live in Richard’s sit to seat, and soon lie Richard in earthy pit.’
‘I see thy glory like a shooting star fall to the base earth.’
‘As we our England in reversion his.’
Moral Growth
‘I wasted time, now doth time waste me.’
‘As time had not an ear to hear my true time broke.’
‘that bucket down and full of tears... drinking my griefs.’
Early anagnorisis
Hamartia – excess
‘we are enforced to farm our royal realm.’
‘the lining of his coffers shall make coats to deck our soldiers in these Irish wars.’
‘liberal largess.’
‘landlord of England.’
‘blank charters.’
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