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Lady Mortimer in Henry IV Part 1
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Lady Mortimer
Lady Mortimer is the wife of Mortimer, an Englishman who betrays his country by marrying her and joining her father's (Glendower's) forces in Wales. Lady Mortimer has no printed speaking lines in the play, but she sings a song in Welsh and her father translates her speech to her husband. Although she cannot communicate to her husband with words, Mortimer says they understand each other's loving looks. Hotspur's reaction to Lady Mortimer's speech is significant because it emphasizes her foreignness.
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- Introduction
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Summary
- Recap of Richard II
- Act 1, Scene 1
- Act 1, Scene 2
- Act 1, Scene 3
- Act 2, Scene 1
- Act 2, Scene 2
- Act 2, Scene 3
- Act 2, Scene 4
- Act 3, Scene 1
- Act 3, Scene 2
- Act 3, Scene 3
- Act 4, Scene 1
- Act 4, Scene 2
- Act 4, Scene 3
- Act 4, Scene 4
- Act 5, Scene 1
- Act 5, Scene 2
- Act 5, Scene 3
- Act 5, Scene 4
- Act 5, Scene 5
- Themes
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Characters
- Prince Hal
- Sir John Falstaff
- Harry Percy (Hotspur)
- King Henry IV
- Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland
- Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester
- Archibald, Earl of Douglas
- Owen Glendower
- Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March
- Sir Walter Blunt
- Earl of Westmoreland
- Lady Kate Percy
- Lady Mortimer
- Mistress Quickly
- Ned Poins
- Bardolph
- Peto
- Gadshill
- Prince John of Lancaster
- Richard Scroop, Archbishop of York
- Sir Michael
- Sir Richard Vernon
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