 | Thomas Page Anderson - 2006 - 225 páginas
...historiography. The scene depicts Richard musing on his fate and narrating a version of English history: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. Make dust...Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Let's choose executioners and talk of wills: And yet not so, for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2006 - 357 páginas
...like Hamlet, spends his time with his eyes downcast seeking the past which has turned to dust: Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs, Make dust our...rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. (3.2. 141-3) To summarize then, Hamlet and Richard remain haunting yet exemplary figures, each uncommon... | |
 | Chris Coculuzzi, William Shakespeare, Matt Toner - 2005 - 277 páginas
...Where is the Duke of York with his slapshot? RICHARD II No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of Graves, of Worms, and Epitaphs, Make Dust...Rainy eyes Write Sorrow on the Bosom of the Earth. Our Rinks, our Lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own, but Death. For God's... | |
 | Patrick Cheney - 2007
...II warrants close attention as well; the King's commitment to tragic lyricism is well known: 'Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs, / Make dust...rainy eyes / Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth' (3.2.145-7). Yet the archly theatrical Richard Ill's fear of poetry is often overlooked: 'A bard of... | |
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Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren... 
