hem" (lines14-23, 1.1)
             Richard III plays with the seductive emotions caught so good in theatrical performances when he successfully courts lady Anne over the body of her husband and father-in-law whom he has murdered: "was ever woman in this humor wooed?/was ever woman in this humor won?" (lines 215-216, 1.2).
             Richards's motives for wooing Anne has nothing to do with love, tenderness, or any of the romantic feelings associated with love. He is merely using her until she can be of no more advantage to him. We see an aggressive man's assault upon her eloquent and extremely justified fear and loathing of him. Here, as we shall see throughout the play Richard succeeds in getting what he wants because he possesses ultimate power to control the situations around him.
             I see Anne as a sly, coy, and ambitiously wanton woman. When Anne says lines 26-28 from 1.2: " If ever he have a wife, let her be made/more miserable by the death of him/ then I am made by my young lord and thee". Her infliction should reflect the vengeful tone of her misery to imply her hatred as clear where Richard is concerned. Then, we see Richard is not giving up and he sees that she made be easily wooed, so he lets the guilt disappear in an admission of love: "Your beauty was the cause of the effect/ your beauty did haunt me in my sleep/ to undertake the death of all the work/so that I might live o
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