Scheme of Actions.
Main Nemesis Action: Life and Death of Richard.
| Underplot: System of Cross Nemesis Actions connectingMain with York side of Enveloping Action. | Clarence has betrayed the Lancastrians for thesake of the House of York: | |
| He falls by a treacherous death from the King of the House ofYork.—To this the Queen and her kindredhave been assenting parties [ii. ii. 62-5]: | ||
| The shock of Clarence'sdeath as announced by Gloster kills the King (ii. i. 131), leaving the Queen and her kindred at the mercy of their enemies.—Unseemly Exultation of their great enemy Hastings: | ||
| The same treachery step by step overtakes Hastings in his Exultation[iii. iv. 15-95].—In this treacherous casting off of Hastings whenhe will no longer support them Buckingham has been a prime agent [iii.i, from 157, iii. ii. 114]: | ||
| By precisely similar treachery Buckingham himself is cast off when he hesitates to go further with Richard [iv. ii. and v. i.] |
Link Nemesis Action connecting Main with Lancaster side of Enveloping Action: Marriage of Richard and Anne (p. [113]).
Enveloping Nemesis Action: The War of the Roses [the Duchess of York introduced to mark the York side, Queen Margaret to mark the Lancastrian side].
Economy.
All the Actions bound together by the Enveloping Action of which they make up a phase.
Parallelism: the common form of Nemesis.
Central Personage: Richard.
Movement.
Passion-Movement, with Similar Motion [form Nemesis repeated throughout (page [282])].
Turning-points.