The uses of Richard III: from Robert Cecil to Richard Nixon.(Critical essay)

From: Shakespeare Bulletin | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

In Eikonoklastes (1649), his attack on the recently executed Charles I's Eikon Basilike, Milton demonstrates Charles' hypocrisy and ignorance by quoting from a work he is sure the King would have known: Shakespeare's Richard III. Milton writes

 
   William Shakespeare; [in 2.1] ... introduces the Person of Richard 
   the third speaking in as high a straine of pietie and mortification, 
   as is utterd in any passage of this Book ... [:] 
      'I doe not know that Englishman alive 
      With whom my soule is anyjott at odds 
      More then the Infant that is borne to night; 
     ...

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