Quote: (12-13-2014 08:09 AM)Rutting Elephant Wrote:
Richard II. So many great, great lines. All in verse.
KING RICHARD II How now! what means death in this rude assault?
Villain, thy own hand yields thy death's instrument.
[Snatching an axe from a Servant and killing him]
Go thou, and fill another room in hell.
It would have been cool to take a trip to London a few years ago just to see Kevin Spacey play Richard. Too bad it was a modernized version.
The 2012 film adaptation was pretty good, but the Arkangel audio is amazing.
Reading that Richard II quote makes it almost like a perverted anti-sonnet, given iambic pentameter tells us to put the stress on each second syllable to tell the actor where the emphasis goes--
How now! What means death in this rude assault?
Villain, thy own hand yields thy death's instrument.
Go thou, and fill another room in hell.
Remissas, discite, vivet.
God save us from people who mean well. -storm