Summary:
Analyzes the psychology of the main charachter in Shakespeare's Richard III. Explores themes of insanity, numbness to feeling, and irrational actions.
He cannot live, I hope, and must not die,
Till George be packed with post force up to heaven.
I'll in to urge his hatred more to Clarence
With lies well steeled with weighty arguments;
And, if I fail not in my deep intent,
Clarence hath not another day to live.
Which done, God take King Edward to his mercy
And leave the world form me to bustle in!
For then I'll marry Warwick's youngest daughter.
What though I hath killed her husband and her father"
The readiest way to make the wench amends
Is to become her husband and her father.
The which will I, not all so much for love
As for another secret close intent
By marrying her which I must reach unto.
But yet I run before my horse to market.
Clarence still breathes, Edward still lives and reigns;
When they are gone, then will I.....
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