ENGL 105A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, Giovanni Boccaccio, John Lydgate
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The wheel of fortune: emblem; visual image that capsulated an abstract idea. Emblem books: truth the daughter of time. John lydgate- the fall of the princess. Richard is a monster- but a kind one. We watch his fall in this play. The scene incorporates the rise fall, and rise of the two figures. Play dramatizes rise and fall of hastings. Hastings- loyal to edward, and edwards line. Place start with hasting on the rise as he enters the tower, but the rise doesn"t last. Edward dies, richard makes a plot to make him king. Send a messenger to hastings to test him; to see if he will accept richard as king. 73-74: messenger is sent, its not an easy manner (richard) Hasting: he for his father sake (hasting is not going to want to do anything against the prince) Rise and fall of lord hasting: released from tower, secure at council, executed.
