King Henry VI Part 1

by William Shakespeare

Overview

Continuing Shakespeare's history plays focusing on fifteenth century England and the squabbles that characterized it, King Henry VI Part 1 is a masterwork that could not have been written by anyone other than the Bard.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781495966446
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	02/16/2014
Pages:	88
Sales rank:	336,606
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.18(d)

About the Author

Widely esteemed as the greatest writer in the English language, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an actor and theatrical producer in addition to writing plays and sonnets. Dubbed "The Bard of Avon," Shakespeare oversaw the building of the Globe Theatre in London, where a number of his plays were staged, the best-known of which include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth. The First Folio, a printed book of 36 of his comedies, tragedies, and history plays, was published in 1623.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Table of Contents

	List of illustrations	ix
	General editors' preface	xi
	Preface	xv
	Introduction	1
	A play for the stage	5
	The politics of adaptation on the English stage	11
	3 Henry VI on the screen and around the globe	33
	The first critical question: single authorship or collaboration?	44
	Moral criticism	49
	Character criticism	64
	Henry	68
	Richard	75
	Historical criticism: determining sources	81
	Historical criticism: establishing context	95
	Psychoanalytic criticism	113
	New criticism	117
	Performance criticism	135
	Feminist criticism	140
	The texts of The True Tragedy and 3 Henry VI	148
	O (1595)	149
	Q2 (1600)	151
	Q3 (1619)	152
	F1 (1623)	156
	Origins of The True Tragedy	159
	Origins of 3 Henry VI	166
	Conclusions	175
	King Henry VI, Part Three	177
	Appendices
1	The Octavo (1595)	369
2	Casting	410
3	The battles in 3 Henry VI	421
4	Genealogical tables	424
	Abbreviations and references	428
	Abbreviations used in notes	428
	Shakespeare's works and works partly by Shakespeare	429
	Editions of Shakespeare collated	430
	Other works	431
	Index	453