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| Character | Warwick | |
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| Gender | Male | |
| Age Range(s) | Adult (36-50), Senior (>50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Persuasive, Inspirational, Descriptive, Reminiscing life story/Telling a story | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Period | Renaissance | |
| Genre | Historical, Drama | |
| Description | Warwick urges York's sons to go to London and fight King Henry | |
| Location | ACT II, Scene 1 | |
Summary
In the first scene of the play the Duke of York organizes a revolt against King Henry VI and wins. However, he promises King Henry VI that he will let him rule England until his death. The Duke of York will be his successor. York's sons, Edward and Richard, persuade their father to break his promise and seize the crown before Henry's death. York is persuaded to fight against Henry's army.
York loses the battle and is killed. In this scene his sons have just learned from a messenger that their father is dead.
Warwick arrives and tells them that when he heard that York was dead he marched with his soldiers to intercept the queen who was on her way to London to undo the King's agreement with York. Warwick's army fought bravely but they lost.
He now urges York's sons to go to London, fight the King again and this time win.
York loses the battle and is killed. In this scene his sons have just learned from a messenger that their father is dead.
Warwick arrives and tells them that when he heard that York was dead he marched with his soldiers to intercept the queen who was on her way to London to undo the King's agreement with York. Warwick's army fought bravely but they lost.
He now urges York's sons to go to London, fight the King again and this time win.
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| Excerpt |
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| WARWICK Why, therefore Warwick came to seek you out; And therefore comes my brother Montague. Attend me, lords. The proud insulting queen, With Clifford and the haught Northumberland, And of their feather many more proud birds, Have wrought the easy-melting king like wax. He swore consent to your succession, His oath enrolled in the parliament; And now to London all the crew are gone, To frustrate both his oath and what beside May make against the house of Lancaster. Their power, I think, is thirty thousand strong: Now, if the help of Norfolk and myself, With all the friends that thou, brave Earl of March, Amongst the loving Welshmen canst procure, Will but amount to five and twenty thousand, Why, Via! to London will we march amain, And once again bestride our foaming steeds, And once again cry 'Charge upon our foes!' But never once again turn back and fly. |
Comments
Warwick basically describes his plan of battle, then incites them to fight with animosity "Why, Via! to London will we march.......".
