Off with his head!
A character in this play angrily demands a clock to strike ten before saying that "Betwixt thy begging and my meditation. / I am not in the giving vein today." It's not part of the Henriad, but discussion of the claim that "succeeding ages have re-edified" a place begun by Julius Caesar precedes an aside in this play which asserts that "So wise, so young, they say, do never live long." The line "Off with his head! So much for" a character in this play was added in a rewriting by (*) Colley Cibber. Ghosts of the title character of this play's victims command him to "despair and die." The speaker of a soliloquy in this play resolves that "since I cannot prove a lover...I am determined to prove a villain." The title character of this play's last lines before being slain by Richmond is "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play that begins with Gloucester declaiming "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York."
A character in this play angrily demands a clock to strike ten before saying that "Betwixt thy begging and my meditation.
Richard III