Merely Players - Son that has Killed his Father/Father Who Has Killed his Son (Henry VI Part 3)

Appearance: Henry VI Part 2. Act 2 Scene 5

Total Lines: Father (26), Son (21)

When considering which character(s) I was going to choose for the first of these posts I was debating between these two characters and another in one of the earlier Henry VI plays.

These two are not given names, they are anonymous figures in a play of bloodshed, used by Shakespeare to show the horrors of war and what this war particularly brought about, in other sources it is named the Cousins War.

After an incredibly moving speech by Henry VI in which he considers time and his rule, these in turn come on and discover they have respectively killed their kin.

No pomp or circumstance just plain horror.