Critics
Richard is a chameleon.
Rich
Peace lives again. That she may long love here, God says amen.
Richmond (last lines of play)
Now is the winter of our discontent.
Act I Scene 1
What is the name of the war in which the play is set?
Wars of the Roses
or Cousins War
What was Shakespeare’s wife called?
Who argues the Tudor myth idea?
Tillyard
He was the wretched’st thing when he was young, so long a growing and so leisurely
Duchess of York
What pain it was to drown!
Act I Scene 4
At what battle did Richard III die?
Battle of Bosworth
What two periods did Shakespeare write in? (name both)
Elizabethan and Jacobean
Every actor wants to play Richard, no one wants the part of Richmond.
Holland
Pitchers have ears
Queen Elizabeth
These English woes will make me smile in France
Act IV Scene 4
What is the name and title of Anne’s first husband?
Edward, Prince of Wales (son of Henry VI)
What proportion of the lines does Richard have in the play? 1/5, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 or all
1/3
Richard’s final speech is a “sermon”
Prescott
He dreamt tonight the boar had razed his helm: besides, he says there are two councils held.
Messenger (of Lord Stanley)
Here is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings, which in a set hand fairly is engrossed
Act III Scene 6
Who was Elizabeth Woodville previously married to?
Sir John Grey of Groby (on Lancastrian side)
Under what genre was Richard III placed in the first folio?
Histories
Other characters are “just heads for Richard to chop off”
Loehlin
The better that you lordship please to ask… God hold it to your honour’s good content… I thank your honour.
Pursuivant (above are all their lines)
Act II Scene 3
Apart from being married, what was the familial relationship between Richard III and Anne Neville?
first cousins once removed (Richard’s mother was Anne’s great aunt)
or brother and sister in law (Anne’s sister Isobel was married to Richard’s brother George)
or third cousin once removed
or fourth cousin once removed
When was Richard III first published? (year)
1597