Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Holy Ghost College Bulletin, 1902
To compare in fewest words the Richard Third of poetry with Richard Third of history, to Observe where the two accounts aid, correct balance each other, where they con?ict and diverge, in order to form a estimate of this famous character, and further, to give a brief summary the chief literary qualities of Shakespeare's celebrated tragedy, may not altogether uninteresting to the student of English history and literature.
The Opening lines Of the play introduce us to Richard, who, _ih a soliloquy of much vigor and stateliness, deliberately says I am determined to prove a villian. The stem majesty of the language and its vigorous con-l. Densation seem to proceed from the mature mind of one long schooled in' plots and crimes. We can easily imagine them uttered by a person hoary with age and steeped in iniquity. Yet Richard was at that time but 19 years old. The scene is laid in 1471; Richard was bo'rn in 1452.
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