As the stage direction instructs, “Richard starteth up out of a dream.” And the dialogue of the two voices, which in earlier scenes was deployed as a way of fooling others, now moves inside Richard, and manifests itself as another kind of civil war: What do I fear? Myself? There's none else by. Richard loves Richard: that is, I am I. Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am. Then fly! What, from myself? Great reason. Why? Lest I revenge. Myself upon myself? Alack, I love myself. Wherefore? For any good That I myself have done unto myself? O no, alas, I rather hate myself For hateful deeds
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