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Richard III Costume Plot COSTUME PLOT / RICHARD III Character/Act Costume + Prop, Details , Speeches, who does What to and With Whom or Act/Scene/ Location/Time/Summary of Scene Act 1 sc 1 London A Street Richard charms the audience with wit, demonstrating himself as an actor. Clarence is taken t o the tower and Hastings is released. Glouster / Speaking about himself: Deformed, bored, witty and clever, determined to prove a villan. Plotting against Clarence Richard and the king; subtle false and treacherous…a fabulous opening speech! Richard brought onto the Elizabethan stage his well-established reputation as a smoothly deceptive, endlessly shifting, and self- serving character, relentlessly ambitious and, despite his unending flow of verbal disguises, ruthlessly and single-mindedly cruel. The audience knew too much about him to believe that what would follow this apparently flippant announcement “I am determined to prove a villain”would be a mere melodramatic joke, Says Clarence’s enemies are his also….irony due to RicharD later being cause of both’s death “And leave the world for me to bustle” Clarence Witty, called sybaritic and dissolute in some of critical material guards Constable of Brakenbury the tower of London Hastings Self-confident, oily?, manipulative, plotting With patience (noble lord) as prisoners must. But I shall live (my lord) to give them thanks That were the cause of my imprisonment. COSTUME PLOT / RICHARD III Act 1 London Another Street Scene 2 Anne mourns Henry VI and her “husband” Edward. Richard woos and wins her. Lady Anne Daughter of Warwick (Richard Beauchamp-known as kingmaker); engaged to Edward – son of Henry VI(not really Neville married yet).burying Henry 6 and cursing Richard Armed Guards W/ corpse of Henry VI Anne to guards: What, do you tremble? Are you all afraid? infication of terror? Says Henry’s wounds are bleeding Tressel and Barkley + gentlemen ????? Richard Enters after first speech; conjured by black magician Anne to Rich: thou lump of foul deformity Gulls Anne, sends Henry to Whiteside not Chertsey Was ever woman in this humor wooed? Was ever woman in this humor won? Act 1 Sc 3 The Palace The Queen consults her faction about the politics of the court, and about Richard. Richard presents himself as more sinned against than sinning. Mgt curses them all and reveals some history. The murderers are sent to Clarence. Queen Elizabeth Oh, he is young and his minority Is put unto the trust of Richard Gloucester, A man that loves not me, nor none of you. Pissed at Derby’s wife for arrogance Later: To Gloucester: You envy my advancement and my friends’; Rivers Discussion with Queen and Grey about impending death of Edward IV Grey COSTUME PLOT / RICHARD III Buckingham Says King wishes to reconcile Gloucester and her brothers “princely Buckingham” Stanley, aka His wife is Countess of Richmond, and Richmond Henry VII is her son Derby Gloucester Because I cannot flatter and speak fair, Smile in men’s faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, ‘ Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy! Cannot a plain man live, and think no harm, But thus his simple truth must be abused By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks? Speaking to Queen’s brothers, insulting them, complains they put Clarence in prison Refers to their lack of nobility and Eliz age Says they fought for the Lancasters I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward’s, Or Edward’s soft and pitiful, like mine. I am too childish-foolish for this world. Scoffs at the idea of being king Calls Margaret a foul wrinkled witch Bemoans the killing of Rutland (his brother) Stays alone after others have left: in league with Derby and Buckingham through his lies Hastings Dorset Son of Eliz by earlier marriage Queen Wife of Henry VI; speaks in asides about her loss of power Margaret Tells us Richard killed Henry Vi and her son Edward, former Prince of Wales Comes forward: curses them all for deposing her Says Edward Vi dieing of his excesses not her curses Curses the rest of them To Richard: On thee, the troubler of the poor world’s peace! The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou livest, And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends! No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine, Unless it be while some tormenting dream Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils! Thou elvish- marked, abortive, rooting hog! Thou that wast sealed in thy nativity The slave of nature and the son of hell! Thou slander of thy mother’s heavy womb! Thou loath’d issue of thy father’s loins, Thou rag of honor, thou detested… COSTUME PLOT / RICHARD III To Elizabeth: Poor painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune, Why strew’st thou sugar on that bottled spider, Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about? Fool, fool, thou whet’st a knife to kill thyself. The day will come when thou MGT cont shalt wish for me To help thee curse this poisonous bunchbacked toad. T p Buckingham: O Buckingham, take heed of yonder dog! Look when he fawns, he bites, and when he bites His venom tooth will rankle to the death. Catesby Call all (except Mgt) to the king 2 Murdrers Come for warrant Hastings Lord Chamberlain To Margaret: But I shall laugh at this a twelvemonth hence, That they who brought me in my master’s hate I live to look upon their tragedy. Act 1 London The Tower Scene 4 Clarence dreams a fearful dream. The murders discuss the nature of conscience, Murderer 1 does the deed while Murderer 2 wishes to re forgiven by God. Clarence As we paced along Upon the giddy footing of the hatches, Methought that Gloucester stumbled, and in falling Struck me (that thought to stay him) overboard,Into the tumbling billows of the main. O Lord, methought what pain it was to drown, What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What sights of ugly death within mine eyes. Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks, A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men’s skulls, and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As ‘twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems, Which wooed the slimy bottom of the deep, And mocked the dead bones that lay scattered by. Was my great father-in-law, renown’d Warwick, (Clarence forsook Warwick to fight for Edward) Wakes to find murderers Keeper Comforts Clarence COSTUME PLOT / RICHARD III Brakenbury a world of restless cares; refuses to think about why the m2 men have Clarence; exits with Keeper Murderer 1 Reporting to the Duke of Gloucester Stabs Clarence And when I have my meed, I will away, For this will out, and then I must not stay. Murderer 2 The urging of that word “judgment” hath bred a kind of remorse in me. Come, he dies. I had forgot the reward. (Conscience) I’ll not meddle with it, it makes a man a coward. A man cannot steal, but it accuseth him. A man cannot swear, but it checks him. A man cannot lie with his neighbor’s wife, but it detects him. ‘Tis a blushing shamefaced spirit that mutinies in a man’s bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns and cities for a dangerous thing, and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and to live without it. A bloody deed, and desperately dispatched. How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands Of this most grievous murder. ACT 2 London the Palace Scene 1 On his death bed Edward Iv asks his court to make peace. He learns that Clarence has already been killed and Gloucester once again accuses the Queen and her family of duplicity. King Edward Sick IV Reconciles Rivers and Hastings, Elizabeth and Hastings Rivers Elizabeth’s brother, Anthony Woodville Hastings Lord Chamberlain Dorset, Eliz son by earlier marraige Marquis of COSTUME PLOT / RICHARD III Grey Eliz son by earlier marraige Elizabeth, Her allies are Rivers, Grey and Dorset Queen She mentions Clarence Buckingham, Duke of Gloucester I thank my God for my humility. Feigns insult when Eliz mentions Clarence But he (poor man) by your first order died, And that a wing’d Mercury did bear. Some tardy cripple bore the countermand, That came too lag,…. Mark you not How that the guilty kindred of the Queen Looked pale, when they did hear of C’s death? Dorset Stanley Asking forgiveness for his servants sin Act 2 The Palace Scene 2 The Duchess of York mourns Clarence, Queen Elizabeth mourns Edward IV. Plans are made for the presentation of Edward Prince of Wales to court while Richard plots with Buckingham. Duchess of Mother of Clarence, Edward IV, and Gloucester York Enters w/ Clarence’s children Wife of Richard Plantagenet ? Ah! That deceit should steal such gentle shape, And with a virtuous vizor hide deep vice! He is my son, aye, and therein my shame, Yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit. Was never mother had so dear a loss! Alas, I am the mother of these griefs, Their woes are parceled, 28 mine are general. She for an Edward weeps, and so do I. I for a Clarence weep, so doth not she.
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