His evil has been exaggerated by Tudor historians. Tudor playwrights, including Shakespeare, turned him into the personification of evil. Richard's speech at the beginning of the play is one of the most memorable in all of literature. Pacino dwells on it and justly so. Read it out loud and discuss the meaning and the rhythm.
Iambic pentameter is a form of poetry with five pairs of syllables in each line.
In iambic verse the stress is on the second syllable in each pair. The second, third and sixth lines of the opening speech of the play are in iambic pentameter without any variation. In the deep bos om of the oc ean buried . In the first sentence, consisting of four lines, the variations in the rhythm accentuate the meaning. The feeling or sentiment of discontent tends to disrupt normal rhythms of life.