1、THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING RICHARD III by William ShakespearePersons Represented. KING EDWARD THE FOURTHSons to the king EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES afterwards KING EDWARD V RICHARD, DUKE OF YORKBrothers to the king GEORGE, DUKE OF CLARENCE RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOSTER, afterwards KING RICHARD IIIA YOUNG SO
2、N OF CLARENCE HENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND, afterwards KING HENRY VII CARDINAL BOURCHIER, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY THOMAS ROTHERHAM, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK JOHN MORTON, BISHOP OF ELY DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM DUKE OF NORFOLK EARL OF SURREY, his son EARL RIVERS, brother to King Edwards Queen MARQUIS OF DORSET and LO
3、RD GREY, her sons EARL OF OXFORD LORD HASTINGS LORD STANLEY LORD LOVEL SIR THOMAS VAUGHAN SIR RICHARD RATCLIFF SIR WILLIAM CATESBY SIR JAMES TYRREL SIR JAMES BLOUNT SIR WALTER HERBERT SIR ROBERT BRAKENBURY, Lieutenant of the Tower 第1 页共63 页http:/ 原版英语阅读网CHRISTOPHER URSWICK, a priest Another Priest L
4、ORD MAYOR OF LONDON SHERIFF OF WILTSHIREELIZABETH, Queen to King Edward IV MARGARET, widow to King Henry VI DUCHESS OF YORK, mother to King Edward IV, Clarence, and Gloster LADY ANNE, widow to Edward, Prince of Wales, son to King Henry VI; afterwards married to the Duke of Gloster A YOUNG DAUGHTER O
5、F CLARENCELords, and other Attendants; two Gentlemen, a Pursuivant, Scrivener, Citizens, Murderers, Messengers, Ghosts, Soldiers, And all the clouds that lourd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monument
6、s; Our stern alarums changd to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visagd war hath smoothd his wrinkled front; And now,-instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,- He capers nimbly in a ladys chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lut
7、e. But I,-that am not shapd for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stampd, and want loves majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtaild of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformd, unfinishd, sent before
8、 my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore
9、,-since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days,- I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams, To set my brother Clarence and the king In deadly hate the one
10、 against the other: And if King Edward be as true and just As I am subtle, false, and treacherous, This day should Clarence closely be mewd up,- About a prophecy which says that G Of Edwards heirs the murderer shall be. Dive, thoughts, down to my soul:-here Clarence comes.Enter CLARENCE, guarded, an
11、d BRAKENBURY.Brother, good day: what means this armed guard That waits upon your grace?CLARENCE. His majesty, Tendering my persons safety, hath appointed This conduct to convey me to the Tower.GLOSTER. Upon what cause?CLARENCE. Because my name is George.GLOSTER. Alack, my lord, that fault is none of
12、 yours; He should, for that, commit your godfathers:- O, belike his majesty hath some intent That you should be new-christend in the Tower. But whats the matter, Clarence? may I know?CLARENCE. Yea, Richard, when I know; for I protest As yet I do not: but, as I can learn, He hearkens after prophecies
13、 and dreams; And from the cross-row plucks the letter G, And says a wizard told him that by G His 第2 页共63 页http:/ 原版英语阅读网issue disinherited should be; And, for my name of George begins with G, It follows in his thought that I am he. These, as I learn, and such like toys as these, Hath movd his highn
14、ess to commit me now.GLOSTER. Why, this it is when men are ruld by women:- Tis not the king that sends you to the Tower; My Lady Grey his wife, Clarence, tis she That tempers him to this extremity. Was it not she and that good man of worship, Antony Woodville, her brother there, That made him send L
15、ord Hastings to the Tower, From whence this present day he is deliverd? We are not safe, Clarence; we are not safe.CLARENCE. By heaven, I think there is no man is secure But the queens kindred, and night-walking heralds That trudge betwixt the king and Mistress Shore. Heard you not what an humble su
16、ppliant Lord Hastings was to her for his delivery?GLOSTER. Humbly complaining to her deity Got my Lord Chamberlain his liberty. Ill tell you what,-I think it is our way, If we will keep in favour with the king, To be her men and wear her livery: The jealous oer-worn widow, and herself, Since that ou
17、r brother dubbd them gentlewomen, Are mighty gossips in our monarchy.BRAKENBURY. I beseech your graces both to pardon me; His majesty hath straitly given in charge That no man shall have private conference, Of what degree soever, with your brother.GLOSTER. Even so; ant please your worship, Brakenbur
18、y, You may partake of any thing we say: We speak no treason, man;-we say the king Is wise and virtuous; and his noble queen Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous;- We say that Shores wife hath a pretty foot, A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue; And that the queens kindred are
19、made gentlefolks: How say you, sir? can you deny all this?BRAKENBURY. With this, my lord, myself have naught to do.GLOSTER. Naught to do with Mistress Shore! I tell thee, fellow, He that doth naught with her, excepting one, Were best to do it secretly alone.BRAKENBURY. What one, my lord?GLOSTER. Her
20、 husband, knave:-wouldst thou betray me?BRAKENBURY. I do beseech your grace to pardon me; and, withal, Forbear your conference with the noble duke.CLARENCE. We know thy charge, Brakenbury, and will obey.GLOSTER. We are the queens abjects and must obey.- Brother, farewell: I will unto the king; And w
21、hatsoeer you will employ me in,- Were it to call King Edwards widow sister,- I will perform it to enfranchise you. Meantime, this deep disgrace in brotherhood Touches me deeper than you can imagine.CLARENCE. I know it pleaseth neither of us well.GLOSTER. Well, your imprisonment shall not be long; I
22、will deliver or else lie for you: Meantime, have patience.CLARENCE. I must perforce: farewell.Exeunt CLARENCE, BRAKENBURY, and guard.GLOSTER. Go tread the path that thou shalt neer return. Simple, plain Clarence!-I do love thee so That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven, If heaven will take the
23、present at our hands.- But who comes here? The new-delivered Hastings?Enter HASTINGS.HASTINGS. Good time of day unto my gracious lord!第3 页共63 页http:/ 原版英语阅读网GLOSTER. As much unto my good Lord Chamberlain! Well are you welcome to the open air. How hath your lordship brookd imprisonment?HASTINGS. With
24、 patience, noble lord, as prisoners must; But I shall live, my lord, to give them thanks That were the cause of my imprisonment.GLOSTER. No doubt, no doubt; and so shall Clarence too; For they that were your enemies are his, And have prevaild as much on him as you.HASTINGS. More pity that the eagles
25、 should be mewd Whiles kites and buzzards prey at liberty.GLOSTER. What news abroad?HASTINGS. No news so bad abroad as this at home,- The king is sickly, weak, and melancholy, And his physicians fear him mightily.GLOSTER. Now, by Saint Paul, that news is bad indeed. O, he hath kept an evil diet long
26、, And overmuch consumd his royal person: Tis very grievous to be thought upon. What, is he in his bed?HASTINGS. He is.GLOSTER. Go you before, and I will follow you.Exit HASTINGS.He cannot live, I hope; and must not die Till George be packd with posthorse up to heaven. Ill in, to urge his hatred more
27、 to Clarence With lies well steeld with weighty arguments; And, if I fail not in my deep intent, Clarence hath not another day to live; Which done, God take King Edward to his mercy, And leave the world for me to bustle in! For then Ill marry Warwicks youngest daughter: What though I killd her husba
28、nd and her father? The readiest way to make the wench amends Is to become her husband and her father: The which will I; not all so much for love As for another secret close intent, By marrying her, which I must reach unto. But yet I run before my horse to market: Clarence still breathes; Edward stil
29、l lives and reigns: When they are gone, then must I count my gains.Exit.SCENE II. London. Another street. Enter the corpse of King Henry the Sixth, borne in an open coffin, Gentlemen bearing halberds to guard it; and Lady Anne as mourner.ANNE. Set down, set down your honourable load,- If honour may
30、be shrouded in a hearse,- Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament Th untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.- Poor key-cold figure of a holy king! Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster! Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood! Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost, To hear the lamentations of poor Anne,
31、 Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughterd son, Stabbd by the self-same hand that made these wounds! Lo, in these windows that let forth thy life, I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes:- O, cursed be the hand that made these holes! Cursed the heart that had the heart to do it! Cursed the blood that l
32、et this blood from hence! More direful hap betide that hated wretch That makes us wretched by the death of thee, Than I can wish to adders, spiders, toads, Or any creeping venomd thing that lives! If ever he have child, abortive be it, Prodigious, and untimely brought to light, Whose ugly and unnatu
33、ral aspect May fright the hopeful mother at the view; And that be heir to his unhappiness! If ever he have wife, let her be made More miserable by the death of him Than I am made by my young lord and thee!- Come, now towards Chertsey with 第4 页共63 页http:/ 原版英语阅读网your holy load, Taken from Pauls to be
34、 interred there; And still, as you are weary of this weight, Rest you, whiles I lament King Henrys corse.The Bearers take up the Corpse and advance.Enter GLOSTER.GLOSTER. Stay, you that bear the corse, and set it down.ANNE. What black magician conjures up this fiend, To stop devoted charitable deeds
35、?GLOSTER. Villains, set down the corse; or, by Saint Paul, Ill make a corse of him that disobeys!FIRST GENTLEMAN. My lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass.GLOSTER. Unmannerd dog! stand thou, when I command: Advance thy halberd higher than my breast, Or, by Saint Paul, Ill strike thee to my foot
36、And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness.The Bearers set down the coffin.ANNE. What, do you tremble? are you all afraid? Alas, I blame you not; for you are mortal, And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil.- Avaunt, thou dreadful minister of hell! Thou hadst but power over his mortal body, His so
37、ul thou canst not have; therefore, be gone.GLOSTER. Sweet saint, for charity, be not so curst.ANNE. Foul devil, for Gods sake, hence and trouble us not; For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell, Filld it with cursing cries and deep exclaims. If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds, Behold this
38、pattern of thy butcheries.- O, gentlemen, see, see! dead Henrys wounds Open their congeald mouths and bleed afresh! Blush, blush, thou lump of foul deformity; For tis thy presence that exhales this blood From cold and empty veins, where no blood dwells; Thy deeds, inhuman and unnatural, Provokes thi
39、s deluge most unnatural.- O God, which this blood madst, revenge his death! O earth, which this blood drinkst, revenge his death! Either, heaven, with lightning strike the murderer dead; Or, earth, gape open wide and eat him quick, As thou dost swallow up this good kings blood, Which his hell-govern
40、d arm hath butchered!GLOSTER. Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.ANNE. Villain, thou knowest nor law of God nor man: No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.GLOSTER. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.ANNE. O wonderful, when devils te
41、ll the truth!GLOSTER. More wonderful when angels are so angry.- Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman, Of these supposed crimes to give me leave, By circumstance, but to acquit myself.ANNE. Vouchsafe, diffusd infection of a man, Of these known evils but to give me leave, By circumstance, to accuse
42、 thy cursed self.GLOSTER. Fairer than tongue can name thee, let me have Some patient leisure to excuse myself.ANNE. Fouler than heart can think thee, thou canst make No excuse current but to hang thyself.GLOSTER. By such despair I should accuse myself.ANNE. And by despairing shalt thou stand excusd;
43、 For doing worthy vengeance on thyself, That didst unworthy slaughter upon others.GLOSTER. Say that I slew them not?ANNE. Then say they were not slain: But dead they are, and, devilish slave, by thee.第5 页共63 页http:/ 原版英语阅读网GLOSTER. I did not kill your husband.ANNE. Why, then he is alive.GLOSTER. Nay
44、, he is dead; and slain by Edwards hand.ANNE. In thy foul throat thou liest: Queen Margaret saw Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood; The which thou once didst bend against her breast, But that thy brothers beat aside the point.GLOSTER. I was provoked by her slanderous tongue That laid their
45、guilt upon my guiltless shoulders.ANNE. Thou wast provoked by thy bloody mind, That never dreamt on aught but butcheries: Didst thou not kill this king?GLOSTER. I grant ye.ANNE. Dost grant me, hedgehog? then, God grant me too Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed! O, he was gentle, mild, and vir
46、tuous.GLOSTER. The better for the king of Heaven, that hath him.ANNE. He is in heaven, where thou shalt never come.GLOSTER. Let him thank me that holp to send him thither, For he was fitter for that place than earth.ANNE. And thou unfit for any place but hell.GLOSTER. Yes, one place else, if you wil
47、l hear me name it.ANNE. Some dungeon.GLOSTER. Your bed-chamber.ANNE. Ill rest betide the chamber where thou liest!GLOSTER. So will it, madam, till I lie with you.ANNE. I hope so.GLOSTER. I know so.-But, gentle Lady Anne,- To leave this keen encounter of our wits, And fall something into a slower met
48、hod,- Is not the causer of the timeless deaths Of these Plantagenets, Henry and Edward, As blameful as the executioner?ANNE. Thou wast the cause and most accursd effect.GLOSTER. Your beauty was the cause of that effect; Your beauty, that did haunt me in my sleep To undertake the death of all the wor
49、ld, So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.ANNE. If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide, These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks.GLOSTER. These eyes could not endure that beautys wreck; You should not blemish it if I stood by: As all the world is cheered by the sun, So I by that; it is my day, my life.ANNE. Black night oershade thy day
