1) What differences do you see between the camps of Richard and Richmond? What do they suggest about the right order of leadership?
             The play vividly dramatizes the contrast between Richard's character and Richmond's character, shifting its perspective back and forth between them numerous times. The leaders, in their respective camps, make almost identical preparations as they ready for the next day's battle, but the difference between them can be seen in the way they go about their business. Richard speaks abruptly to his lords, and, as we can see, essentially is isolated from all human contact. He is in power, but he is alone: his brothers, nephews, and even his own wife are all dead at his hand, his mother has cursed and abandoned him, and even the person who was once his closest friend-Buckingham-has been sent to execution.
             Richmond, on the other hand, is gracious and friendly to both his noblemen and his soldiers. The battle speeches of the two leaders clearly show their different styles: Richmond asks his men to remember the beauty of the land that they are protecting from a tyrant, and the wives and children whom they will be making free. He reminds his men that he himself will die in battle if he cannot win, and that, if he does succeed, all his soldiers will be rewarded. In contrast, Richard simply mocks the enemy soldiers, calling them "a scum of Bretons and base lackey peasants" (V.vi.47). As Richard says to his noblemen before his speech, he believes that might makes right, and that "conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe" (V.vi.39–40). Very much Richard's opposite, Richmond claims to fight for honour, compassion, and loyalty-in effect, he fights on the side of conscience.
             2) What is the impact of the visits of the ghosts to Richard and Richmond?
             The effect of the ghosts' procession is something like having eleven bitter curses ("Despair a...