in one play.
In one soliloquy, this character declares "I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; / I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk". In that speech, this character says: "Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile". In one speech, this character describes "grim-visaged war" capering "nimbly in a lady's chamber / To the lascivious pleasing of a lute". A series of ghosts tell this character to "Despair and die!" in one play. This character asks "Was ever woman in this humour won?" after wooing Lady Anne Neville while standing by the coffin of her husband. He orders the death of his brother Clarence, who is drowned in a vat of wine. He perishes declaring "A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!". For 10 points, name this character who opens his namesake play with the lines "Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this son of York".
In one soliloquy, this character declares "I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; / I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk".
Richard III [accept Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester; also accept Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York; prompt on "Richard"]