English 105A: Notes on Richard II
From UCSB English Department Knowledge Base
TA: Geoffrey McNeil
English 105: Early Shakespeare
Fall 2002
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Richard II Notes
Sickness and the State: England is alive
1.) suppose Devouring pestilence hangs in our air (Gaunt, 1.3:283-84)
2.) Against infection and the hand of war (Gaunt, 2.1:44)
3.) thou liest in reputation sick (Gaunt 2.1 96)
4.) Join with the present sickness that I have (Gaunt 2.1:132)
5.) Of noble blood in this declining land! (Northumberland 2.1:240)
6.) the caterpillars of the commonwealth (Bolingbroke 2.4:165)
7.) these signs forerun the death or fall of kings (Captain 2.4:51)
8.) You have misled a prince (Bolingbroke 3.1:8)
9.) This earth shall have a feeling (Richard 3.2:24)
10.) Armies of pestilence… (Richard 3.3:86)
11.) Bind thou up young dangling apricocks (Gardener (3.4:29)
12.) The King’s blood stained the King’s own land (Richard 5.6 109)
Importance of Speech
1.) And now my tongue’s use is to me no more (Mowbray 1.3:162)
2.) His tongue is now a stringless instrument (Northumberland 2:1:149)
3.) Let’s fight with gentle words (Aumerle 3.3:130)
Idealization of the Past
1.) p.29 England
2.) p. 33 Prince of Wales
3.) p.36 of noble blood in this declining land (Northumberland 2.1:240)
4.) p.48 rescue of Black Prince (York 2.3:100)
5.) p.59 sad stories of the death of kings (Richard 3.2:156)
Divine Right
1.) Let heaven revenge , for I may never lift (Gaunt 1.2: 40)
2.) how art thou a king but by fair sequence and succession (York 2.1:199)
3.) one is my sovereign whom both my oath and duty bids defend (York, 2.2:112)
4.) my letters patents give me leave (Bolingbroke 2.3:129)
5.) to find out right with wrong – it may not be (York 2.3:144)
6.) more welcome is the stroke of death to me than Bolingbroke to England (Bushy: 3.1:31)
7.) Not all the waters in the rough rude sea can wash the balm off from an anointed king (Richard 3.2:55)
8.) Revolt our subjects? That we cannot mend: they break their faith to God as well as us (Richard 3.2:101)
9.) Throw away respect (Richard 3.2:172)
10.) Show us the hand of God that hath dismissed us from our stewardship (Richard 3.3:77)
11.) No further scope than for his lineal royalties (Northumberland 3.3:111)
12.) Must he submit? (Richard 3.3:142)
13.) For do we must what force will have us do (Richard 3.4:205)
14.) What subject can give sentence on his king (Bishop Carlisle 4.1:121)
15.) Proud majesty a subject, state a peasant (Richard 4.1:252)
16.) You violate a twofold marriage (Richard 5.1:72)
Personification
1.) p.11 Envy
2.) p.11 Murder
3.) p.17 Peace
4.) p.20, 41 Death
5.) p.12,30 Grief
6.) p.39 Fortune
7.) p.39 Sorrow
8.) p.56 Time
9.) p.88 Necessity
10.) p.88 Rage
11.) p.104 Time
Conceits
1.) p.9 slander’s venomed spear
2.) p.11 tree of Edward
3.) p.18 my tongue’s use
4.) tis nothing but conceit (Bushy, 2.2:33)
5.) p.41 art the midwife to my woe
6.) p.55 searching eye of heaven
7.) p.64 blushing discontented sun
8.) p.84 book indeed where all my sins are writ
9.) p.88
Consciousness and Self-Consciousness
1.) p.22 Teach thy necessity to reason (Gaunt 1.3:276)
2.) p.39 Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows (Bushy 2.2:14)
3.) p.40 Tis nameless woe I wot (Queen 2.2:40)
4.) p.59 Let’s talk of graves (Richard 3.2:145)
5.) p.64 He looks like a king…so fair a show (York 3.3:70)
6.) p.67 We’ll make foul weather with despised tears (Richard 3.3:160)
7.) p.80 Am I both priest and clerk (Richard 4.1:173)
8.) p.81 for I must nothing be (Richard 4.1:200)
9.) p.82 delivered me to my sour cross (Richard 4.1:240)
10.) p.83 I have no name, no title (Richard 4.1:254)
11.) p.84 give me the glass, therein will I read (Richard 4.1:275)
12.) p.88 think our former state a happy dream (Richard 5.1:18)
13.) p.88 tell thou the lamentable tale of me (Richard 5.1:44)
14.) p.92 well-graced actor (York 5.2:24)
15.) p104 Thus play I in one person many people (Richard 5.5:31)
Richard and the Queen
1.) p.90
