Deformity / Richard’s nature / Tudor myth

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, / Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time”

Richard III

Act 1 Scene 1

“I am determined to prove a villain”

Richard III

Act 1 Scene 1

“I am subtle, false, and treacherous”

Richard III

Act 1 Scene 1

“A murd’rous villain, and so still thou art”

Margaret (about Richard III)

Act 1 Scene 3

“Elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog”

Margaret (about Richard III)

Act 1 Scene 3

“Thou slander of heavy mother’s womb, / Thou loathed issue of thy father’s loins”

Margaret (about Richard III)

Act 1 Scene 3

“Poisonous bunch-backed toad”

Margaret (about Richard III)

Act 1 Scene 3

“The tiger now hath seized the gentle hind”

Elizabeth

Act 2 Scene 4

“Thus, like the formal Vice, Iniquity, / I moralise two meanings in one word.”

Richard III

Act 3 Scene 1

“O bloody Richard!”

Hastings

Act 3 Scene 4

“O my accursed womb, the bed of death! / A cockatrice hast thou hatched to the world, / whose unavoided eye is murderous”

The Duchess of York

Act 4 Scene 1

“A hellhound that doth hunt us all to death”

Margaret (about Richard III)

Act 4 Scene 4

“Bloody thou art; bloody will be thy end. / Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.”

The Duchess of York (about Richard III)

Act 4 Scene 4

“The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar”

Richmond

Act 5 Scene 2

“Bloody and guilty”

Ghost of Hastings

Act 5 Scene 3

“God and good