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

by William Shakespeare, John D. Cox (Editor), Richard Proudfoot (Editor), Eric Rasmussen (Editor), Ann Thompson (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
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time.

John D. Cox is the DuMez Professor of English at Hope College, USA.

Professor Richard Proudfoot served as Senior General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare for 35 years, until his retirement from King's in 1999. In 2001 The Arden Shakespeare published Proudfoot's Shakespeare: Text, Stage and Canon a critical overview of the scholarly achievements made in the field of Shakespeare studies by the end of the twentieth century.

Eric Rasmussen is a Professor and Chair of the English department at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.

ANN THOMPSON is Emeritus Professor in English at King' s College London UK.

David Scott Kastan is the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University, USA.

Henry Woudhuysen is Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, UK.

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