Edward IV (Shakespeare)

Edward, Earl of March, of the Yorkist party, is later Duke of York and King Edward IV; he is the same as the Edward of Henry VI, Part Two.

A loyal son, he has occasional attacks of conscience about the things he does, though these are mainly afterthoughts. He is not as intelligent as his brother Richard, nor quite as ambitious as either his brothers or his father, and is an unrepentant, uncontrolled womanizer, who would much rather go wenching than rule and does not necessarily accept the word ‘No.’