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- The middle brother between King Edward VI and Richard, Clarence stands ahead of Richard in the line of succession to the throne. Richard, while pretending to be Clarence's ally, first turns Edward against him and then has him murdered.
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George receives the title of the Duke of Clarence from his brother, and he is often referred to as "Clarence" throughout the play and into Richard III. George is Richard's next target at the end of the play. Richard. A younger brother of Edward and George, Richard is a fierce supporter of the Yorks' claim to the throne.
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Richard sneaks off to the Tower, where Henry awaits. Henry...
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Henry remarks on Margaret's behavior, saying that her love...
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Clarence. The gentle, trusting brother born between Edward...
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He orchestrates the downfall of his own family members, including his brother George, Duke of Clarence, and his nephews, the young Princes in the Tower. Richard III s manipulation of Queen Anne, the widow of King Henry VI, and his marriage to her after the death of her husband, further solidifies his claim to the throne.
Jul 31, 2015 · Clarence’s Daughter. Duchess of York, mother of Richard, Edward, and Clarence. Queen Margaret, widow of King Henry VI. Duke of Buckingham. William, Lord Hastings, Lord Chamberlain. Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby. Earl Rivers, brother to Queen Elizabeth. Lord Grey. Marquess of Dorset. sons of Queen Elizabeth by her. former marriage. Sir Thomas Vaughan.
- Richard
- Buckingham
- King Edward IV
- Clarence
- Queen Elizabeth
- Dorset, Rivers, and Gray
- Anne
- Duchess of York
- Margaret
- The Princes
Also called the duke of Gloucester, and eventually crowned King Richard III. Deformed in body and twisted in mind, Richard is both the central character and the villain of the play. He is evil, corrupt, sadistic, and manipulative, and he will stop at nothing to become king. His intelligence, political brilliance, and dazzling use of language keep t...
Richard’s right-hand man in his schemes to gain power. The duke of Buckingham is almost as amoral and ambitious as Richard himself. Read an in-depth analysis of Buckingham.
The older brother of Richard and Clarence, and the king of England at the start of the play. Edward was deeply involved in the Yorkists’ brutal overthrow of the Lancaster regime, but as king he is devoted to achieving a reconciliation among the various political factions of his reign. He is unaware that Richard attempts to thwart him at every turn.
The gentle, trusting brother born between Edward and Richard in the York family. Richard has Clarence murdered in order to get him out of the way. Clarence leaves two children, a son and a daughter.
The wife of King Edward IV and the mother of the two young princes (the heirs to the throne) and their older sister, young Elizabeth. After Edward’s death, Queen Elizabeth (also called Lady Gray) is at Richard’s mercy. Richard rightly views her as an enemy because she opposes his rise to power, and because she is intelligent and fairly strong-wille...
The kinsmen and allies of Elizabeth, and members of the Woodeville and Gray families. Rivers is Elizabeth’s brother, while Gray and Dorset are her sons from her first marriage. Richard eventually executes Rivers and Gray, but Dorset flees and survives.
The young widow of Prince Edward, who was the son of the former king, Henry VI. Lady Anne hates Richard for the death of her husband, but for reasons of politics—and for sadistic pleasure—Richard persuades Anne to marry him. Read an in-depth analysis of Anne.
Widowed mother of Richard, Clarence, and King Edward IV. The duchess of York is Elizabeth’s mother-in-law, and she is very protective of Elizabeth and her children, who are the duchess’s grandchildren. She is angry with, and eventually curses, Richard for his heinous actions.
Widow of the dead King Henry VI, and mother of the slain Prince Edward. In medieval times, when kings were deposed, their children were often killed to remove any threat from the royal line of descent—but their wives were left alive because they were considered harmless. Margaret was the wife of the king before Edward, the Lancastrian Henry VI, who...
The two young sons of King Edward IV and his wife, Elizabeth, their names are actually Prince Edward and the young duke of York, but they are often referred to collectively. Agents of Richard murder these boys—Richard’s nephews—in the Tower of London. Young Prince Edward, the rightful heir to the throne, should not be confused with the elder Edward...
The middle brother between King Edward VI and Richard, Clarence stands ahead of Richard in the line of succession to the throne. Richard, while pretending to be Clarence's ally, first turns Edward against him and then has him murdered.
Jul 31, 2015 · Act 1, scene 3. Scene 3. Synopsis: Queen Elizabeth bemoans her situation in the face of her husband’s serious illness; Richard quarrels with Queen Elizabeth, her brother, and Grey, her son by her first marriage. Queen Margaret, King Henry VI’s widow, curses them all. After the others have departed, Richard dispatches his agents to kill Clarence.
Aya Kanno's Japanese manga comic Requiem of the Rose King is a loose adaptation of the first Shakespearean historical tetralogy, covering Henry VI and Richard III. References Citations. All references to Henry VI, Part 3, unless otherwise specified, are taken from the Oxford Shakespeare (Martin), based on the First Folio text of 1623. Under its ...
