... miserable by the death of him Than I am made by my young lord and thee. In 1.2 of Shakespeare's Richard III, Lady Anne changes from hatred to consideration of Richard's "love." This is an infamous scene because it shows that despite Anne's condemnation of the murderer of her ... Richard, the tone of her lines has shifted from mourning King Henry VI to expressing what she would like to see happen to his killer. This shift occurs with an anaphora of three consecutive lines that start with "cursed" (lines 15-16). This anaphora of "cursed" makes the intention of her soliloquy ... clear, and...

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... be the father to so blest a son, A son who is the theme of honour's tongue; (I.1.78-81) His son Hal, as we know from Richard II, has been spending most of his time in taverns accompanied by a group of common scoundrels. Henry continues to lament his son's rowdy behavior and praises what ... he assumes is truly honorable conduct in Hotspur's blind ambition. Later in Act III, Henry IV chastises Hal for not being respected in the public opinion in the way Hotspur is. He also notes that Hotspur, like himself, had ... to prove his worth through battles and praises his fortitude; "To bloody b...

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