King Henry VI, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

Overview

This edition celebrates King Henry VI Part 2 as one of the most exciting and dynamic plays of the English renaissance theatre, with its exploration of power politics and social revolution and its focus on the relationship between divine justice and sin. An extensive discussion of performance history traces the play's progress on stage from abridgement and adaptation to full historical epic. A survey of criticism discusses the wide range of responses provoked by the play's handling of its historical theme, and concludes by focusing on the element of burlesque in the attempted social revolution portrayed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412156240
Publisher:	eBooksLib
Publication date:	04/21/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	157 KB

About the Author

Edward Burns is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Liverpool. His publications include Restoration Comedy: Crises of Desire and Identity, Character: Acting and Being on the Pre-Modern Stage, Shakespeare's Richard III (forthcoming), an edition of Five British Romantic Plays (with Paul Baines), and a collection of commissioned essays entitled Reading Rochester.

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