Drama
Richard III
Shakespeare
1600's
- Lady Anne is mourning her husband and Richard tries to seduce her
- semantic field of death and injury, motifs about blood
- imperatives and declaratives, she is adamant she knows what she wants
- Antithesis of dark and light
- syntactical parallelism
"cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes, cursed be the heard that had the heart to do it, cursed be the blood that let this blood from hence"
"If he ever have a wife, let her be made miserable by the death of him"
Compare to - The Rainbow, P&P
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