Richard III - Queen Margaret

Queen Margaret 1) Queen Margaret has the role of prophetess in the play, but her warnings are ignored. Make a chart listing all of Margaret’s various curses and predictions. Fill in when and how they are fulfilled as you study the play. Queen Margaret curses/prophesises the following: 1) Edward IV to die of sickness; 2) Edward V to die young; 3) Queen Elizabeth to live long, and be not wife, mother, or Queen (by all this, made …

…toad, where is thy brother Clarence? And little Ned Plantagenet, his son? Queen Elizabeth mentions the death’s of Hastings, River’s, Vaughan and Grey who are all killed by Richard. Queen Elizabeth: Where is kind Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Grey? Queen Elizabeth: I have no more sons of the royal blood For thee to murder: for my daughters, Richard, They shall be praying nuns, not weeping queens; And therefore level not to hit their lives.