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How Does Shakespeare Present Richard As A Round Character

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In this piece from William Shakespeare’s Richard III, Lady Anne, the widow of King Henry VI’s son, Edward, is stopped by Richard of Gloucester as she, along with a group of men, bear the corpse of King Henry who was killed by Richard during the of the battle of Tewkesbury. Richard, whose goal is to woo Lady Anne and marry her even after he killed her husband and father-in-law, plays the role of a suffering lover and attempts to use petrarchan conceit to win over his beautiful mistress after failing a stichomythic exchange with Lady Anne in which he was shot done by her continued peristrophe. At this point in the play, the audience is familiar with Richard’s character as to be a round character who is gifted speaker. With this gift, he is able

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