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This is taken from the beginning of the play. He is describing Richards feelings as he says Now is the winter of our discontent.He is feeling miserable as he compares his state of emotion to winter- the coldest and darkest season. He is using the royal we as his family is head of England. At this stage the cause of his misery is not clear.

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What are the first lines in Richard III shakespeares play?

Now is the winter of our discontent.


What character from Shakespeares play said this line How is the winter of your discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York?

Richard, the future king.


Who says in Shakespeare Now is the winter of your discontent?

Not "your discontent"; "our discontent". These are the first lines of the play Richard III, and Richard himself says them in soliloquy: "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York. And all the clouds that lour'd on our house in the deep bosom of the ocean buried." What he means is that things hadn't been going so well for the Yorkies at the end of the last play, Henry VI Part 3, but they defeated Warwick and captured and killed Henry VI and his son, so now Edward VI, Richard's brother (the son of York, hence the pun about a "sun of York") is firmly in the saddle as King of England. Winter has turned to summer; the clouds have left the sky and the sun shines. Everything is peachy. (But we find out pretty soon that as far as Richard is concerned, things aren't as peachy as all that).


What are the famous quotes from the play Richard III?

First line of the play: "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York." "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" "Was ever woman in this humour woo'd? Was ever woman in this humour won?"


A cross poem of winter?

Snow is the best Never disappoint you Only when it is winter Winter is going to be gone Fulfiling your dreams Loving your winter day All ways by your side when it snowing Keeps you company Every day it fall at winter Slowly coming down