Richard III and the Seduction of Lady AnneRichard, Duke of Gloucester, is a great seducer. However, it is easier when the seduced is rather fragile of mind and heart, as I believe was the case with Lady Anne. Perhaps Lady Anne's ego was initially as busy as her anger was. Gloucester masterfully deals with his resolve, but let's look at the facts. She knows that Gloucester killed her husband and father-in-law. This fact is undisputed (within the work). Gloucester admits to both murders by saying, "[y]our beauty was the cause of that effect [the murders]" (I.ii.121). His father-in-law's body lies a few meters away. Yet in less than two hundred lines, Anne goes from calling him a "black wizard" and a "foul devil" to accepting his ring (I.ii.34; I.ii.50). This is a real breakthrough. She could have left but she was more intrigued or flattered than angry or humiliated. Richard uses flattery to woo her. He repeatedly tells her that he killed her husband and father-in-law so that he could "spend an hour in [her] sweet bosom" (I.ii.124). Gloucester goes on to tell her that he "lives, that he loves you better than [Edward] could" (I.ii.141), meaning that Gloucester loves her better than her husband. After she spits on him, he calls it (the spit), “poison from such a sweet place” (I.ii.146). Gloucester is relentless in his flattery and she doesn't leave. The most notable part of this scene is when Gloucester bares his chest and gives his sword to Anne to kill him and asks her to end his pain if he doesn't want it. . She starts towards him with the sword, but drops it when he tells her that "it was your heavenly face that moved me [to kill her husband]" (I.ii.182). He then offers to turn the sword against himself. In the space of a few seconds, she goes from raising her sword towards him, to feebly replying, "I would know your heart" (I.ii.192). She still questions his motives, but Gloucester has clearly already won her over and slips a ring on her finger. It is no wonder that Gloucester boasts to himself of this achievement. Her father-in-law's corpse is barely cold and she has accepted Gloucester as her next husband.