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.

By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,

Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,

And descant on mine own deformity:

And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

Unless to spy my shadow in the sun

To entertain these fair well-spoken days,

To set my brother Clarence and the king

Have no delight to pass away the time,

I am determined to prove a villain

In deadly hate the one against the other

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

And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,

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