Género: Teatro
Subgénero: Teatro
Clásico / Histórico / Tragedia / Drama
Autor: William Shakespeare
Título: Ricardo II (The Life and Death of King Richard the Second)
Año: 1595
Sinopsis:
Ricardo II es una obra histórica de Shakespeare que narra cómo el vanidoso y frívolo rey Ricardo es derrocado por su primo, Enrique Bolingbroke. La obra explora la ambición por el poder, la caída del rey y la transformación de su carácter, pasando de la autocompasión a la meditación filosófica tras la pérdida de su trono. El drama se centra en la lucha por el poder y la condición humana, y se considera una de las obras más líricas de Shakespeare, escrita en verso.
Ricardo II, Acto
III, Escena II
Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs,
Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.
Let’s choose executors and talk of wills.
And yet not so, for what can we bequeath
Save our deposèd bodies to the ground?
Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke’s,
And nothing can we call our own but death
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 of the death of kings—
How some have been deposed, some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,
Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed,
All murdered. 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,
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks,
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
As if this flesh which walls about our life
Were brass impregnable; and humored thus,
Comes at the last and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell, king!
Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood
With solemn reverence. Throw away respect,
Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty,
For you have but mistook me all this while.
I live with bread like you, feel want,
Taste grief, need friends. Subjected thus,
How can you say to me I am a king?
REY RICARDO












