3. work
Read Richard III: Acts 1 and 2
Post #8
1. It is important, in Richard III, for the audience
to understand what the Elizabethan audience
would have known. Read the selection from
Act 1, scene 1, lines 148-166 and analyze
Shakespeare’s strategies for telling the
audience of the schemes Richard had devised.
Does it seem forced or is it smoothly revealed?
2. Richard’s wooing scene is in Act 1, Scene 2
lines 72 to 244. How effective is it? Analyze
his arguments and his ability to mask evil
under the guise of piety. Name key moments
that push his agenda. Why is Lady Anne
susceptible to his wooing?
3. Is Richard a Trickster Character? Why? Which
traits do you see in him? Are their other
trickster characters in this text?
4. You have until the end of the class
period to finish your test.
