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Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene Two
Time & Place
London, England, 1480s
Length
Medium
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
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Context
Lady Anne Neville is following the corpse of King
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Set down, set down your honourable load,
If honour may be shrouded in a hearse,
Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament
The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.
Poor key-cold figure of a holy king!
Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster!
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