Re: Horses and Kingdoms and Montagues
Posted by:
Bart Odom (---.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net)
Date: March 22, 2002 06:09PM
<HTML>Not to beat a dead horse, so to speak, but to all you naysayers out there I would like to observe that Richard himself denies the "swap my kingdom for a horse" interpretation in the play itself. After Richard first says "A horse etc", Catesby, taking Richard to be desiring escape, says, "Withdraw, my lord, I'll help you to a horse." Richard immediately reproves Catesby thus: "Slave, I have set my life upon a cast/And I will stand the hazard of the die." That is, Richard is committed to his course, come what may. He desires not escape, but laments that for want of a horse he will be unable to find and slay the sixth, and genuine, Richmond, and will therefore lose his kingdom.</HTML>