Adequacy front page
Stories Diaries Polls Users
Google

Web Adequacy.org
Home About Topics Rejects Abortions
This is an unofficial archive site only. It is no longer maintained. You can not post comments. You can not make an account. Your email will not be read. Please read this page or the footnote if you have questions.
 Moods for moderns

 Author:  Topic:  Posted:
Sep 18, 2001
 Comments:
You know who you are.
diaries

More diaries by Peter Johnson
Psycho Ex Girlfriends
Looking for pain in all the wrong places
You win some, you lose some
Blue
Sermon On The Mount
Under the Bridge
Lovers Arrival, The
The Width Of A Circle
A Shocking Discovery
A Woman Waits For Me?
there is no god but shoeboy
Gimme Danger
Breasts
Girlfriend is better
Happy birthday to me
Like A Virgin
Silencing The Aryan King
Microsoft
Should I make the switch to OS X?
New Adequacy.org Feature
Girlfriend is better
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now,--instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,--
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I,--that am not shap'd for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;--
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun,
And descant on mine own deformity:
And therefore,--since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,--
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.


Evil, deformity, ambition, villainy. (none / 0) (#1)
by chloedancer on Tue Sep 18th, 2001 at 05:06:30 PM PST
"The opening words of this play reflect the persona of Richard, a deformed, angry man who hates the world that he believes hates him. In this soliloquy we see the workings of his mind, and how he is always aware of his hideous appearance. 'Deformed, unfinished, sent before' his 'time into this breathing world, scarce half made up,' his personality has grown warped. He is so ugly that the dogs on the street bark at him; women scorn him. And, so since he 'cannot prove a lover', he is 'determined to be a villain.'

"Shakespeare's Richard, with all his deformities, both of body and mind, is considered a physical manifestation of the corruption of the monarchy during the War of the Roses, a bloody moment in English history. In this long soliloquy, Richard makes no apologies for his villainy but rather embraces it and gives cause."

(Source: Richard III, All Shakespeare.)

Whatever floats your boat, babe. Me, I prefer The Tempest.


Oh brave new pretension that has Gielgud in it (none / 0) (#2)
by zikzak on Tue Sep 18th, 2001 at 06:39:53 PM PST
Some of us are too lazy to read and prefer highly stylized & visually stunning yet almost totally incomprehensible filmed interpretations.


 

All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective companies. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest ® 2001, 2002, 2003 Adequacy.org. The Adequacy.org name, logo, symbol, and taglines "News for Grown-Ups", "Most Controversial Site on the Internet", "Linux Zealot", and "He just loves Open Source Software", and the RGB color value: D7D7D7 are trademarks of Adequacy.org. No part of this site may be republished or reproduced in whatever form without prior written permission by Adequacy.org and, if and when applicable, prior written permission by the contributing author(s), artist(s), or user(s). Any inquiries are directed to legal@adequacy.org.