"crimes." He influences the exact right people, at the exact right time, to get the result he desires.
             Richard also pulls quite a number on Lady Anne, the late Prince Edward's widow. Lady Anne despises Richard for killing her husband, or so we believe in the beginning. Richard uses flattery, and perhaps his deformity, to break through the wall Lady Anne has built around her heart since her husband's death. The act starts out with Richard pitying himself for his looks, saying "I, that am curtailed of this fair
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