Photo Title
Preview
Production Title
King Richard II
Production Date
1937
Photograph Caption
The Queen is troubled by a sense of foreboding, yet cannot identify the cause of her despair, in Act II, scene 2. Her servant, Bushy, tries to comfort her.
Dialogue
Bushy: "Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,
Which shows like grief itself, but is not so;
For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears,
Divides one thing entire to many objects--
Like perspectives which rightly gazed upon,
Show nothing but confusion, eyed awry
Distinguish form. So your sweet Majesty,
Looking awry upon your lord's departure,
Find shapes of grief, more than himself, to wail.
Which, looked on as it is, is naught but shadows
Of what is not....(II.ii.14-24)
Play Title
King Richard II
Venue
Stage
Company Location
New York (N.Y.)
Place of Production
New York (N.Y.)
Genre
English History
Character
Queen: Eleanor Phelps
Object Type
black-and-white photographs
Size of Original
8 x 10 in.
Donor
Cole, Joseph E.
Repository
Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Format
jpeg
