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Jul 31, 2015 · Act 1, scene 1. Scene 1. Synopsis: Richard, alone onstage, reveals his intention to play the villain. He then pretends to console Clarence, the first victim of this villainy. After Clarence is led off toward prison, Richard greets Hastings, who tells him that King Edward is very ill. Richard, once again alone onstage, outlines his plan to have ...
Analysis: Act 1, Scene 1. In the play’s well-known opening lines, Richard refers to events that Shakespeare chronicles in his earlier plays Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, and Henry VI, Part 3, and with which he would have expected his viewers to be familiar. The Henry VI plays detail an exhausting civil war for the throne of England ...
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Translation. RICHARD, Duke of Gloucester, enters alone. Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. 5 Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruisèd arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry ...
Summary. Analysis. Richard of Gloucester enters alone and sets the scene, opening with one of Shakespeare's most famous lines: "Now is the winter of our discontent." Though it's technically summer, it is winter from Richard's perspective because he is unhappy. His family, the House of York, has emerged victorious from the Wars of the Roses and ...
Made glorious summer by this son of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house. In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. 5 Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruisèd arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Shakespeare follows the traditional account, which makes it Richard who stabbed to death the young prince after the battle of Tewksbury, and in Henry VI, Part III, V. v. 39, he is represented as actually murdering him. In I. iv. 56, it is ascribed to Clarence on the best authority — that of the ghost of the murdered man.
