King Henry VI, Part 3 (Arden Shakespeare, Third Series)

by William Shakespeare, John D. Cox (Editor), Eric Rasmussen (Editor), Ann Thompson (Editor), David Scott Kastan (Editor)

Overview

In their lively and engaging edition of this sometimes neglected early play, Cox and Rasmussen make a strong claim for it as a remarkable work, revealing a confidence and sureness that very few earlier plays can rival. They show how the young Shakespeare, working closely from his chronicle sources, nevertheless freely shaped his complex material to make it both theatrically effective and poetically innovative. The resulting work creates, in Queen Margaret, one of Shakespeare's strongest female roles and is the source of the popular view of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick as ‘kingmaker'. Focusing on the history of the play both in terms of both performance and criticism, the editors open it to a wide and challenging variety of interpretative and editorial paradigms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781903436318
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/01/2001
Series:	Arden Shakespeare Series
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	480
Sales rank:	292,735
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.75(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

John D. Cox is the DuMez Professor of English at Hope College, Michigan. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power and The Devil and the Sacred in English Drama, 1350-1642, and co-editor with David Scott Kastan of A New History of Early English Drama.

Eric Rasmussen is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is joint editor with David Bevington of Doctor Faustus in the Revels Plays series and the World's Classics edition of Christopher Marlowe's plays, author of A Textual Companion to 'Doctor Faustus', and co-editor of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama. He writes the annual review of "Editions and Textual Studies" for Shakespeare Survey.

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