ENGL 205 Lecture 7: Richard 4

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 205
• Professor: Susan Bennett

Document Summary

Rivers, grey, and vaughn, all the queen"s allies, are brought forth to be executed. Grey mentions margaret"s curse once more, claiming it falls upon their heads for standing by when. Rivers prays that if god had heard her prayers to have them killed, that god hears her prayers to have. Richard, buckingham, and hastings all killed as well. He also prays to god that his sister (the queen) and her sons (the princes) will not be harmed, and that god will be satisfied with just them being killed. The audience can see from this that they are might be on the opposite sides in the coming war. Remember that the last scenes in act 3, were all men making decisions. Move to scenes dominated by women, who are concerned with the fates of the young princes. The women are barred from seeing the princes by brakenbury, who was appointed by oath to stop them.