Soliloquy Challenge

Cambridge School Shakespeare

King Richard III

Soliloquy Challenge

How well do you know this soliloquy? Drag the lines into the correct order then click SUBMIT at the bottom to see if you've got it right.

To entertain these fair well-spoken days,

In deadly hate the one against the other

I am determined to prove a villain

By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,

Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,

And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,

To set my brother Clarence and the king

Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,

Unless to spy my shadow in the sun

Have no delight to pass away the time,

And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

And descant on mine own deformity:

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