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ROBERT CLACK SCHOOL ENGLISH SATS RICHARD III
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• Lady Anne - Character and Motivation
• Richard III Act 1 scene 2

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Lady Anne - who is she?
Daughter of Warwick
A powerful noble who changed sides during the
Wars of the Roses
What is she doing in this scene?
Mourning the death of her father-in-law, Henry
Vl.
Widow of the Prince of Wales
Also killed by Richard
Killed in battle by Richard
She is with the open coffin
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So she doesnt like Richard?
Correct!
How does she show this in the scene?
She uses direct language, linked to evil
thou dreadful minister of hell
the devil.
Foul devil
thy hell
She refers to the crimes Richard has committed
thy butcheries
Thy is repeated for emphasis in the speech
thy heinous deeds
thy and thou, the 2nd person singular, used
here by Lady Anne to show contempt for Richard
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Anne is not afraid of Richard
tis thy presence that exhales this blood
She accuses him of making Henrys corpse bleed
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Fairer than tongue can name thee
She makes quick-witted responses to Richard,
involving word-play
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Fouler than heart can think thee
She refuses to give way to him
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She directly accuses Richard of killing her
husband and King Henry
Didst thou not kill this King?
Queen Margaret saw Thy murderous falchion
smoking in his blood
She is angry when Richard is sarcastic to her
Dost grant me, hedgehog?
And thou unfit for any place but hell!
So Anne is holding out against Richard
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So how does Richard win her over?
Your bed-chamber.
1. Introduces sexual element - lie with
2. He says her beauty was to blame
Your beauty that did haunt me in my sleep
But she is still not won over.
If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide, These
nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks.
1. argues back
2. Spits at him
Highly unusual act for an aristocratic lady
She is in a state of grief where she does
unthinkable things
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Richard tries different lines of argument with
Anne
1. He says he has suffered
Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt
tears,
She is scornful
2. He brings in the sexual element again
Teach not thy lip such scorn for it was made
For kissing, lady,
This seems to wear Lady Anne down
Perhaps at this point she feels attracted towards
him, despite herself.
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Richard takes a calculated step
She has the opportunity to stab him
I lay it naked to the deadly stroke, And humbly
beg the death upon my knee.
But she doesnt kill him even though he
encourages her
She takes his sword in her hands
She says
Arise, dissembler.
This is the turning point and later in the
scene she accepts his ring
A milder insult than the ones she used earlier
Get up hypocrite- shes not fooled
It shows hes winning her over
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Why does Anne allow herself to be persuaded by
Richard?
Which do you think are the most important?
Shes in a state of grief and is not in control
of her emotions
Anne feels guilty - maybe it was her beauty that
made Richard kill her husband
Anne is sexually attracted to Richard
Richard's powers of persuasion- he doesnt give
up.
The play takes place in a bloody and violent
setting. Brother kills brother. People are
executed for minor reasons. Henry Vls corpse
starts to bleed. In this setting a woman agreeing
to marry her husbands killer is yet another
shocking event.
Richard is attractive e.g. to other characters
in the play Hastings, Buckingham, Clarence
Fear if youre Richards friend youre safe!
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Richard lll SATs 2008

• Character in section 2
• A4s4 lines 199-342

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Two characters in this section
Richard
Queen Elizabeth
What does Richard want?
What Queen Elizabeth does want?

• To marry Queen
• Elizabeth's daughter
• also called
• Elizabeth

To stop Richard marrying her daughter.
The audience wants to know who will win
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In some ways this is similar to section 1
In section 2 Richard is asking Queen Elizabeth
if he can marry her daughter, Elizabeth after
he has murdered her sons
In section 1 Richard was trying to get Lady
Anne to marry him, after murdering her husband
Why marry Elizabeth?
Because Richmond wants to marry her - it will
strengthen his claim to the throne
His wife Anne is dead
Will he be successful this time?
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Richard tries to take command of the situation
But Elizabeth knows what he is after
Stay, madam. I must talk a word with you.
I have no more sonsfor thee to slaughter!
She says her daughters will be
praying nuns, not weeping queens
She warns Richard to keep away
level not to hit their lives.
Dont aim
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How does Richard try and win her over?
With compliments about her daughter
Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.
Slander myself as false to Edwards bed,
Elizabeth threatens to say that her daughter is
illegitimate
Why might this stop Richard wanting to marry her?
Her life is safest only in her birth.
Elizabeth points out that birth didnt save her
sons
He argues back
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Richard protests his innocence
You speak as if that I had slain my cousins.
Elizabeth responds angrily
Plays on the word
She picks up on cousins
cheated
Cousins, indeed! And by their uncle cozened Of
comfort, kingdom, kindred, freedom, life!
The alliteration builds up the rhythm
To the powerful conclusion to the line
It shows that Elizabeth will stand up to Richard
Shes angry at her loss and protective of her
daughter
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Elisabeth accuses Richard he is responsible for
the death of her sons
But he gave the order
He may not have held the knife that..
lanced their tender hearts,
my nails were anchored in thine eyes
Her grief is so wild that she wishes
Elizabeth has been provoked and is now on the
attack
Richard lies to cover up
Hes just had the princes murdered
I intend more good to you or yours Than ever
you or yours by me were harmed!
What tone of voice would the actors use to say
these lines?
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Richard is trying to win Elizabeth over by making
promises for her children
advancement
dignity and height of fortune,
But Elizabeth rebuffs him
Up to some scaffold, there to lose their heads?
Shes sarcastic
He keeps it vague
Richard is devious - he hasnt yet mentioned
marriage or her daughter
endow a child of thine
he continues to declare his innocence
Which thou supposest I have done to thee.
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Richard now becomes more direct
Elizabeth plays on words in her reply
from my soul I love thy daughter.
Elizabeth uses from in the sense of far away
That thou dost love my daughter from thy soul.
So from thy souls love didst thou love her
brothers,
When Richard suggests he will make her daughter
his Queen, Elizabeth is contemptuous
What, thou?
Familiar, dismissive
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Richard suggests Elizabeth can teach him how to
woo her daughter
Elizabeths response is ironic
Richard
Send to her, by the man that slew her brothers,
A pair of bleeding hearts. Thereon engrave
Edward and York. Then haply will she weep.
Richard knows hes being mocked
Why hasnt it worked this time?
When he tried this line earlier with Lady Anne
it worked
Say that I did all this for love of her.
But not this time
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Richard tries to convince Queen Elizabeth that he
should marry her daughter
Almost admits he killed the princes
Richard sees things in terms of the throne
If I did take the kingdom from your sons, To
make amends Ill give it to your daughter.
This is unlikely to convince Elizabeth
An unsophisticated argument
Richard never refers to her by name
He also says a grandmother is similar to a mother
They are as children but one step below,
Another unconvincing argument
All this does is emphasise that Richard has
killed her sons
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Up until now Richard has been antagonistic to the
Queens family
He promises to call the Queen's son Dorset,
brother and give him
high promotions and great dignity.
Richard becomes lyrical
He wants Elizabeth to woo her daughter for him
The liquid drops of tears that you have shed
Shall come again, transformed to orient pearl,
Acquaint the Princess With the sweet silent
hours of marriage joys.
Ironic when we consider what has happened to his
wife Anne
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Richards speech builds up to a climax
He sees himself as the conquering hero
He boasts that he will beat the rebel Buckingham
Bound with triumphant garlands will I come, And
lead thy daughter to a conquerors bed
Links victory in battle to victory in love
But the Queen is unconvinced
he that slew her brothers and her uncles?
Richmond marries her at the end of the play.
At the end of this section Richard has not
persuaded the Queen.
He does not marry her daughter Elizabeth.