The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 22.0249  Friday, 30 September 2011

From:         Thomas Pendleton < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Date:         September 29, 2011 8:25:35 PM EDT

Subject:      RE: SHAKSPER: Queen Undaunted 

Jeanette Webber's claim that Margaret of Anjou is "the only person to appear in four of [Shakespeare's] plays"--meaning the three Henry VI plays and Richard III--neglects the presence of her husband, who appears in the three plays that bear his name, and returns, first as a corpse and then as a ghost in Richard III. Since he has a few lines in his latter manifestation, he must be allowed the same status as character that we accord King Hamlet.

Tom Pendleton