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Please address the following five tasks and questions. You may write up to three pages of text, according to the formatting specifications of the style sheet. Longer Assignments will not be accepted. | Please address the following five tasks and questions. You may write up to three pages of text, according to the formatting specifications of the style sheet. Longer Assignments will not be accepted. | ||
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# Compared to the 1597 and the 1623 editions of Shakespeare's ''Richard III'' the modern Arden edition followed a modern decision to read Richard's lines 109-111 as an aside. Would it be possible or even plausible to play this passage not as an aside? How would that affect our perception of Richard's character? | # Compared to the 1597 and the 1623 editions of Shakespeare's ''Richard III'' the modern Arden edition followed a modern decision to read Richard's lines 109-111 as an aside. Would it be possible or even plausible to play this passage not as an aside? How would that affect our perception of Richard's character? | ||
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| − | + | ==Folio edition, 1623, p.183-184== | |
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| − | + | ==Arden edition, 1981, II,ii lines 79-111== | |
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Please address the following five tasks and questions. You may write up to three pages of text, according to the formatting specifications of the style sheet. Longer Assignments will not be accepted.
- Give a structured summary of the following text passage of the 1597 quarto edition of Richard III
- Locate the passage within the play's context
- Identify and shortly define three rhetorical elements of the dialogue (you may use the folio edition to widen your choice)
- Compared to the 1597 and the 1623 editions of Shakespeare's Richard III the modern Arden edition followed a modern decision to read Richard's lines 109-111 as an aside. Would it be possible or even plausible to play this passage not as an aside? How would that affect our perception of Richard's character?
Quarto edition, 1597, E2v
Folio edition, 1623, p.183-184
Arden edition, 1981, II,ii lines 79-111
