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- Lady Anne enters in mourning alongside the funerary procession bearing King Henry VI's coffin. Anne, distraught, furiously curses Richard for killing Henry VI, her father-in-law, and Edward of Westminster, her husband.
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Summary: Act 1, Scene 2. Lady Anne, the widow of King Henry VI’s son, Edward, enters the royal castle with a group of men bearing the coffin of Henry VI. She curses Richard for having killed Henry.
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Jul 31, 2015 · Richard woos Lady Anne over the corpse of King Henry VI, Anne’s father-in-law, whom Richard murdered. Enter the corse of Henry the Sixth ⌜ on a bier, ⌝ with Halberds to guard it, Lady Anne being the mourner,
Lady Anne enters in mourning alongside the funerary procession bearing King Henry VI's coffin. Anne, distraught, furiously curses Richard for killing Henry VI, her father-in-law, and Edward of Westminster, her husband.
Original. Translation. Enter the corse of Henry the Sixth, on a bier, with halberds to guard it, Lady ANNE being the mourner, accompanied by gentlemen. Gentlemen enter carrying the corpse of King Henry VI in an open coffin, with armed guards protecting it.
Anne points out that Henry VI's corpse is bleeding. (In Shakespeare's day, it was thought that a murdered man's wounds would bleed in the presence of his murderer.) Then Richard does the unthinkable: he begins to put the moves on Anne...right in front of her father-in-law's bleeding corpse!
Like Queen Elizabeth, Margaret, and the Duchess of York, Anne is a woman who becomes tangled in Richard’s fight for power. When the play opens, Anne is still mourning her husband (Edward the Prince of Wales) and her father-in-law (Henry VI) who were both killed by Richard.
A coffin holding King Henry VI's corpse is being carried through the streets by a group of pallbearers. Henry's grieving daughter-in-law, Lady Anne, follows. Lady Anne orders the pallbearers to stop and take a break so she can deliver a big speech about how sad she is.
