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Email required Address never made public. Name required. Pages About. Category Uncategorized Follow Following. Sign me up. By the way, Richard is pretty good at manipulating the audience, too, which basically means that we are not so different from Lady Anne.
As literary scholar Marjorie Garber reminds us, Lady Anne knew all about Richard's "crimes, and yet she was won over — and the same will happen to the audience in the theater. We see all the horrors that come with Richard and his world [ Yet readers and audiences are perpetually fascinated and spellbound" by the guy.
Because Anne has ties to the late King Henry VI, Richard uses her as a political pawn to further his agenda, which sums up the way women are viewed and treated in this play. After Richard has Anne murdered, he tries to marry his niece, Young Elizabeth, to strengthen his claim to the throne. If you haven't done so already, be sure to check out our summary of Act 1, Scene 2 , where we provide links to the steamy yet disturbing and odd wooing scene in two film adaptations.
Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. For the first time, Buckingham does not obey Richard immediately, saying that he needs more time to think about the request.
Richard murmurs to himself that Buckingham is too weak to continue to be his right-hand man and summons a lowlife named Tyrrell who is willing to accept the mission. In almost the same breath, Richard instructs Catesby to spread a rumor that Queen Anne is sick and likely to die, and gives orders to keep the queen confined.
The implication is that he plans to murder Queen Anne. Buckingham, uneasy about his future, asks Richard to give him what Richard promised him earlier: the earldom of Hereford.
Tyrrell returns to the palace and tells Richard that the princes are dead. He says that he has been deeply shaken by the deed and that the two men he commissioned to perform the murders are also full of regrets after smothering the two children to death in their sleep.
But Richard is delighted to hear the news, and offers Tyrrell a rich reward. After Tyrrell leaves, Richard explains the development of his various plots to get rid of everyone who might threaten his grasp on power.
The two young princes are now dead.
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