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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