 | Meredith Anne Skura - Drama - 1993 - 348 pages
...scene, Richard reduces his entire reign to a doomed pageant staged within the mental space of the crown: Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks; . . . and, humour'd thus, Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...2 And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories...conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life 1 60 1 5 3-4 that small model of the harren earth \ Which serves as paste and cover to our hones. Probably... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...moment of the actual King Richard's downfall. This is an original Shakespearean fiction: All murthered - for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchic, be fear'd, and kill with looks; Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh... | |
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All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp... 
