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Which aspect of analysis would be most appropriate for this excerpt from act I scene I, of Shakespeare's Ric

RICHARD III (Duke of Gloucester): What news abroad?

LORD HASTINGS: No news so bad abroad as this at home;

The King is sickly, weak and melancholy,

And his physiclans fear him mightily.

RICHARD III (Duke of Gloucester): Now, by Saint Paul, this news is bad Indeed.

O, he hath kept an evil dlet long, And overmuch consumed his royal person:

Tis very grievous to be thought upon.

What, Is he in his bed?

LORD HASTINGS: He Is.

RICHARD III (Duke of Gloucester): Go you before, and I will follow you.

[Exit HASTINGS]

He cannot live, I hope; and must not die

Till George be pack'd with post-horse up to heaven.

I'll in, to urge his hatred more to Clarence,

With lies well steel'd with weighty arguments;

And if I fall not in my deen intent
Clarence hath not another day to live:

Which done, God take King Edward to his mercy.

And leave the world for me to bustle int

For then I'll marry Warwick's youngest daughter. What though I kill'd her husband and her father?

The readiest way to make the wench amends

Is to become her husband and her father:

The which will l; not all so much for love

As for another secret close Intent, By marrying her which I must reach unto.

(Exit)


OA OB. the development of the character of Lord Hastings in the play the characterization of Richard III as a concerned brother

OC. the use of soliloquy as a tool of foreshadowing in the play

OD. the portrayal of marriage in the play

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