...daughter; he no want to be king."11 It requires little imagination to appreciate the dangers lurking "within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king," to understand chiefs' fearing a more powerful rival and the constant threat of being hustled into the...

...calls for the sad stories and draws a contemptus mundi moral through the image of 'antic Death' keeping court within 'the hollow crown / That rounds the mortal temples of a king' (i60-1). His spirits rise briefly when he is chided by Richmond, but when he learns of the desertion...

...Pontius Pilate. To be king, in Richard's rhetoric, is to be marked out for sacrificial death, 'for within the hollow crown | That rounds the mortal temples of a king | Keeps death his court' (3. 2. 156-8): it is the fate, he claims, of all kings, of legitimate monarchy...

...ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed — All murdered; for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp; . . ....

...the ghosts they have depos'd, Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd; All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antick sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp; Allowing...

...death more eloquently expressed than in Shakespeare's history of King Richardll, (1597): . . . for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp. (3. 2.160-...

...ghosts they have deposed, / Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping kill'd, / All murthered-for within the hollow crown /That rounds the mortal temples of a king / Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, / Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, /...

...ruin and decay; The worst is death, and death will have its day. (m. ii. 93) Richard knows that . . . within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp. (m. ii....

...monarch: For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings . . . for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and iherc the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp Allowing...

...storia. Su questa immensa scala deserta Leopoldo Jessner rappresentò il Riccardo III nella *4 [Por within the hollow crown / That rounds the mortal temples of a king / Keeps Deaps bis court; and there the antick sits, / Scoffing his state, and grinning famosa messa...