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.

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

Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,

In deadly hate the one against the other

To set my brother Clarence and the king

To entertain these fair well-spoken days,

I am determined to prove a villain

By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,

And descant on mine own deformity:

Have no delight to pass away the time,

And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,

Unless to spy my shadow in the sun

And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

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