After watching the video of the first scene of act 2 a lot of the conversations made a lot more sense. Most of all was the second half or so of the talk between Richard and Gaunt. As i was reading it it really seemed like Gaunt trying to impart some dying wisdom to Richard and Richard just being stubborn but after watching the video it made a lot more sense as a yelling match and Richard being more than just stubborn. It helped a lot to get that perspective to help make sense of Richards mood after Gaunt leaves. At first it just seemed like Richard was really overreacting and just went over the deep end. It's pretty amazing how much changing someones inflection or mood can completely change whats going on. There's really a lot of depth to reading Shakespeare not only because the language is old but also the way people react to different phrases and situations is completely different. I like thinking about how these plays were acted out in Elizabethan England. Even if all the scholars agree on what something means in Shakespeare's writing, we'll never know what it was really like to have seen these plays when they were first acted out. I guess in a way play writing is a medium that lends well to being adjusted for contemporary use, because you can fill in all the physical specifications without altering the writing.