 | Kenneth S. Rothwell - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 402 pages
...has already ascended the throne and his younger brother, the misshapen Richard duke of Gloucester - "Then since the heavens have shap'd my body so, / Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it" (? Henry V! 5.6.78) - is scheming to usurp his brother's crown. To make these machinations plain to... | |
 | Laurie Maguire - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 260 pages
...snapping personality of the dentally equipped baby), he prays that his mind may match his deformed body: "Then since the heavens have shap'd my body so, / Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it" (5.6.78-9). If Richard is a villain, the role is clearly not congenital. One suspects, then, that the... | |
 | MacDonald Pairman Jackson - Drama - 2004 - 300 pages
...am like no father; I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word "love," which graybeards call divine Be resident in men like one another And not in me: I am myself alone. (3 Henry VI, 5.6.78-84) But Richard of Gloucester does in fact have kin, including both a father and... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 224 pages
...soliloquy comes after he has murdered Henry VI: in it he proclaims his detachment from his fellows: I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this...like one another, And not in me! I am myself alone. The protagonist of Richard III, which is concerned with the events immediately following, is developed... | |
 | Wolfgang Clemen - Drama - 2005 - 280 pages
...) Henry VI Richard makes a similar choice of villainy, and gives the same reason for his attitude: 'Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it.' (V, vi, 78 f.) 3 A change of stress at the beginning of line 32 marks the opening of the new section:... | |
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And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards... 
