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Now is the winter of our discontent
 
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'Now is the winter of our discontent'

Conrad Nelson begins the play of Richard III with Richard's chilling soliloquy in which he tells the audience that he "hates the idle pleasures of these days" and is set to disrupt the harmony of his brother Edward's reign through murder and mayhem. He is, he tells the audience, "determined to prove a villain".

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