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PLEASE READ AND MAKE SURE TO FOLLOW THE LINKS I HAVE UPLOADED FOR YOU. DO NOT USE ANY OUTSIDE SOURCES!! DO NOT SITE THE SOURCES I HAVE LINKED FOR YOU IN THE READING. WRITE FROM YOUR POINT OF VIEW BUT DO QUOTE LINES OF THE PLAY!!! INCLUDE LINES OF THE PLAYAccordingly, you are giving two different readings of Richard’s figure and the dramatic action of the play: the first psychological; the second allegorical. In order to do this persuasively, you have to select evidence from the play that supports either reading; and that evidence consists of the words / speech / language / imagery of the text—that is, what the characters say to and about themselves and each other.1. For each reading, you will start with Richard’s opening speech, interpreting his words to support first one and then the other account of his role (historical or magical, political figure or devil incarnate).2. You will then choose two scenes to argue the nature of Richard’s identity (political figure or devil incarnate) and the play’s dramatic action: the first in which a principal character in the play is seduced by Richard’s wiles, and the second in which s/he acknowledges her or his error of understanding or sin.Those principal characters include Clarence, Anne, Hastings, Buckingham and Queen Elizabeth.3. Repeat.In addition to Richard’s and others’ asides, here are some suggested passages / scenes. Do take into account what transpires by the beginning of Act Four, when Richard ceases to speak and ingratiate himself with the audience. You need also to consider the fact and manner of Richard’s death.Richard’s opening address to the audience (1.1.1-41)Richard’s exchange with Clarence (1.1.43-121)Richard’s exchange with Anne (1.2)Queen Margaret’s curses and warning to Buckingham (1.3.187-300) Richard’s statement of politic strategy (1.3.323-37)Clarence’s dream and exchange with the murderers (1.4.1-83ff)Buckingham’s oath of fealty to Elizabeth and her kin (2.1.32-40; cf. 5.1)Queen Elizabeth’s and the Duchess of York’s lament (2.2.34-95)Richard’s pretense with Buckingham (2.2.151-54)Citizens’ colloquy (2.3)Richard’s exchange with the young princes, especially, “Thus, like the formal Vice,Iniquity,/I moralize two meanings in one word” (3.1)Stanley’s dream and Hastings’ exchange with Catesby (3.2)Scrivener’s speech (3.6)Richard’s and Buckingham’s pious play for the crown performed before the mayor andBuckingham’s claque (3.7)Anne’s recognition and confession (4.1.65-86)Richard’s scene of coronation and break with Buckingham (his decision to kill the princesand marry his niece) (4.2)the lament of Margaret, Queen Elizabeth and Duchess of York (4.4.1-121)Richard’s exchange with his mother on their relationship (4.4.132-96)Richard’s exchange with Queen Elizabeth (4.4.197-431)Buckingham’s confession of his guilt (5.1)the juxtaposition of Richmond and Richard staking out their ground at Bosworth field, theirdreams, and exhortations to their soldiers (5.2 and 3)Richard’s dream (the ghosts’ prophecy) and his dissociated soliloquy with his conscience(5.3.177-206)you’re supposed to provide two readings of the same scenes, one historical-psychological, the other allegorical-moral (you need to read the handout on the Morality Play to do this reading properly). given his opening speech and subsequent actions, in your case with Anne, do we see his (temporarily) successful pursuit of the crown as the work of mere man, if a man with extraordinary gifts for intrigue and deception, or do we see that pursuit as the work of the devil, which is to say, a being with a preternatural power of understanding and manipulation, who knows the human soul in a way no human being can do? Does R merely enlist his allies in error (whom he then kills) through his insidious charm and their corruption, which they then confess; or does he tempt them into sinning against the good by a kind of magical compulsion, which leads them into despair and then repentance? Those are the options and you’re supposed to read the scenes first one way, and then the other.‘Reading’ means interpreting or expound the sense of the text by analyzing the words on the page. Because Shakespeare is a poet as well as a dramatist, to whom the English language owes some of its best lines, you have to do what your critics do, which is explicate those lines. BUT you are explicating them from the prompt’s vantage: see this line first as R merely human, then R as the devil incarnate. Or to put the case less bluntly: read R’s opening speech as a self-justification for his villainy, in which he addresses the audience in an attempt to persuade us that he has no choice but to commit the assorted murders that he does, because his deformity denies him the human love given to the beautiful and not to the ugly. ‘Dissembling nature’–‘deceptive, deceitful, dishonest, untrustworthy, vicious’ and so forth—had doomed him to be unloved, AND insofar as nature if God’s creature, God has made him the scourge, the punisher, of England’s corrupt nobility who have caused the civil war. So he seeks ultimate power and significance—the monarchy of England, the highest office in the land—to compensate himself for this deprivation. But if the scene with Anne is any indication, R is delusional, since as he himself observes, ‘was ever woman in this humour woo’d, was ever woman in this humour won’? He has surprised himself no end, and Anne must eventually confess that she has cursed herself. Look at her words: how she lambasts R and then succumbs to his outrageous claim that ‘your beauty’ made him kill her father-in-law and husband. Look at his logic: how does he pull it off? Some lover.The other interpretation argues that R is the devil incarnate, and that his opening speech reproduces the conventions of medieval morality plays in which the devil or vice declares his wicked intentions and proceeds to implement them. You want to use the same scenes with Anne, but now you want to bring to bear on R’s opening speech and consequently his identity her accusations, along with those of Margaret, the Duchess and Elizabeth, which represent R as indeed the very epitome of evil. Look for the signs of ‘supernatural’ happenings: what about the play’s end, when the ghosts come to condemn R while exalting Richmond. I don’t want to give the whole game away but there are instances you can cite in support of this reading and Anne’s temptation (seen this way), despair and repentance. But QUOTE AND ANALYZE THE TEXT: the text is your evidence and analysis is your demonstration in which you make us see in Shakespeare’s words what you find. And finally, tell us which reading you find most persuasive.