Which aspect of analysis would be most appropriate for this excerpt from act i scene i, of shakespeare's richard iii? richard iii (duke of gloucester): what news abroad? lord hastings: no news so bad abroad as this at home; the king is sickly, weak and melancholy, and his physicians fear him mightily. richard iii (duke of gloucester): now, by saint paul, this news is bad indeed. o, he hath kept an evil diet long, and overmuch consumed his royal person: 'tis very grievous to be thought upon. what, is he in his bed? lord hastings: he is. richard iii (duke of gloucester): go you before, and i will follow you. [exit hastings] he cannot live, i hope; and must not die till george be pack'd with post-horse up to heaven. i'll in, to urge his hatred more to clarence, with lies well steel'd with weighty arguments; and, if i fall not in my deep intent, clarence hath not another day to live: which done, god take king edward to his mercy, and leave the world for me to bustle in! for then i'll marry warwick's youngest daughter. what though i kill'd her husband and her father? the readiest way to make the wench amends is to become her husband and her father: the which will i; not all so much for love as for another secret close intent, by marrying her which i must reach unto. (exit) the development of the character of lord hastings in the play the characterization of richard iii as a concerned brother the use of soliloquy as a tool of foreshadowing in the play the portrayal of marriage in the play