SOURCE: Thatcher, David. “Cover-up: The Murder of Gloucester in 2 Henry VI.” The Shakespeare Newsletter 50, no. 4 (winter 2000-2001): 105, 114, 116, 118.
In the following essay, Thatcher lists the five different ways in which murders and the cover-ups that follow them are committed in Shakespeare's plays, and shows how Humphrey of Gloucester's murder in Henry VI, Part 2 is an example of a murder made to look as though it were a death by natural causes.
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