That is my name, Richard, don’t you know. I hope you are going to say a good word for Richard, don’t you know, for my sake.

Piano, diminuendo.

Then outspoke medical Dick

To his comrade medical Davy⁠ ⁠…

Then outspoke medical Dick To his comrade medical Davy⁠ ⁠…

In his trinity of black Wills, the villain shakebags, Iago, Richard Crookback, Edmund in King Lear , two bear the wicked uncles’ names. Nay, that last play was written or being written while his brother Edmund lay dying in Southwark.