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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the Richard III Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In scene 2, how does Shakespeare's writing of Richard’s manipulation...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In scene 2, how does Shakespeare's writing of Richard’s manipulation of Anne add interest to the play?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Act I, scene ii, having previously killed both her spouse and her...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Act I, scene ii, having previously killed both her spouse and her father, Richard III announces his intentions to become Lady Anne's husband. She curses him roundly, but is unable to act on Richard's offer to stab him at once, and by the scene's end, she is silent on the question of whether she can become Richard's queen. After she exits, Richard asks the tandem rhetorical questions: "Was ever woman in this humor woo'd/Was ever woman in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 06:49:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the speech that begins Richard III, the title character gives us an...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/richard-3/q-and-a/why-richard-iii-profoundly-evil-121</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In the speech that begins Richard III, the title character gives us an explicit answer to this question: he is evil by his very nature. A misshapen hunchback whose image is unpleasing to the eye, Richard recognizes that he cannot be a lover and so he is "determined to prove a villain" (I, i., l.30). Macbeth is ambitious, and like the protagonist of the Scottish tragedy, Richard seeks (and gains) the throne. But unlike Macbeth, there is no...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 06:48:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Richard III's career before and after he becomes England's king is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Richard III's career before and after he becomes England's king is marked by a long succession of heinous crimes that serve as milestones of his rise to power. But of all the evil things he does, it is the murder of the young Prince of Wales (named Edward and twelve years old at the time) and his younger brother, the Duke of York (named Richard and seven or eight years old) that stands out. Having planted the rumor that the two boys are...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 05:24:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[On the eve of battle with Richmond at Bosworth field, a sleeping Richard...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[On the eve of battle with Richmond at Bosworth field, a sleeping Richard is visited by the ghosts of those whom he has killed or had killed. When he awakens, Richard confirms that he is aware of this ghastly procession, saying "Me thought the souls of all that I had murder'd/Came to my tent, and every one did threat/Tomorrow's vengeance on the head of Richard" (V, iii., ll.204-206). He then says to Ratcliffe, "By the apostle Paul, shadows...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 05:23:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grammardog Guide to Richard III]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[The title of Duke of Gloucester is a British Royal title often conferred...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The title of Duke of Gloucester is a British Royal title often conferred on the son of the reigning king. It is often spelt 'Gloster' because it is pronounced [gloster].
Gloustershire is a region in the South West of England. Gloucester is the name of the district and the name of the city of that region.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 07:14:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The spelling of GLOSTER I believe is actually GLOUCESTER?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The spelling of GLOSTER I believe is actually GLOUCESTER?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 05:44:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You can't really read this one line in isolation and get the meaning. ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You can't really read this one line in isolation and get the meaning.  The King says:

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York; And all the clouds that low'r'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

The winter of our discontent was indeed a bad time, but the King is saying that this bad winter has been made into glorious summer by his brother becoming King.
For a good discussion of this...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:19:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Now is the winter of our discontent - does that mean things are going...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Now is the winter of our discontent - does that mean things are going well or going poorly?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:21:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shakespeare]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Well, it's a little bit black and white, even for a history play....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Well, it's a little bit black and white, even for a history play. Richmond has a few meetings, with Stanley, and with his lords about the plans for the next day's battle, and goes to sleep with a head full of "troubled thoughts". Yet his last thoughts on preparing for battle come in - a suitably angelic - prayer, contrasting with Richard as Vice, as devil, as demonic:

O Thou Whose captain I account myself,Look on my forces with a gracious...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:30:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are Richmond's thoughts when preparing for battle with Richard, and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are Richmond's thoughts when preparing for battle with Richard, and after meeting the ghosts in his tent?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:14:55 PST</pubDate>
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DUCHESS.So many miseries have craz'd my voiceThat my woe-wearied tongue...]]></title>
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DUCHESS.So many miseries have craz'd my voiceThat my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.--Edward Plantagenet, why art thou dead?
QUEEN MARGARET.Plantagenet doth quit Plantagenet,Edward for Edward pays a dying debt.
QUEEN ELIZABETH.Wilt thou, O God, fly from such gentle lambs,And throw them in the entrails of the wolf?When didst Thou sleep when such a deed was done?
QUEEN MARGARET.When holy Harry died, and my sweet son.

The women in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:50:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can someone please explain the Duchess of York's speech "Dead life,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can someone please explain the Duchess of York's speech "Dead life, blind sight..." from "Richard III"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:10:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Richard's body count piles up in Act 3, as it will continue to do so for...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/richard-3/q-and-a/what-does-deaths-sugest-about-idea-justice-act-3-63693</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Richard's body count piles up in Act 3, as it will continue to do so for the rest of the play. Rivers, Gray, Vaughan, and finally Hastings all bite the dust. And why? Because none of them will support the campaign to make Richard the king. And is any of this legal or just? Not a chance.
Here's Hastings on the situation of England, shortly before Hastings is killed:

O bloody Richard! miserable England!I prophesy the fearful'st time to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:13:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who do the deaths in Act 3 suggest about justice in "Richard III"?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/richard-3/q-and-a/what-does-deaths-sugest-about-idea-justice-act-3-63693</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Who do the deaths in Act 3 suggest about justice in "Richard III"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:23:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[First of all, Rivers, Grey and Vaughan all die together in Act 3, Scene...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[First of all, Rivers, Grey and Vaughan all die together in Act 3, Scene 3. What do they realise as the die? That they're dying because of Richard's whim, and that the curse that Queen Margaret made earlier in the play (which predicted that they'd all meet sticky ends because of Richard) has come true:

GREYNow Margaret's curse is fall'n upon our heads,For standing by when Richard stabb'd her son.
RIVERSThen cursed she Hastings, then cursed...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:21:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[List the deaths in Act 3. What does each person realize as they die?...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[List the deaths in Act 3. What does each person realize as they die? What does this suggest about the idea of justice ?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:17:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[We have an excellent summary of the play here on enotes, available at...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[We have an excellent summary of the play here on enotes, available at the link below. I've also put there the link below to our "Richard III" site - which has all sorts of other useful resources.
Hope it helps!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:10:28 PST</pubDate>
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