Henry VI, Part 1

by William Shakespeare, William Montgomery (Editor), Janis Lull (Introduction), Stephen Orgel (Editor), A. R. Braunmuller (Editor)

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780143132257
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/10/2018
Series:	Pelican Shakespeare Series
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 5.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April, 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. 

A. R. Braunmuller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman and has edited plays in both the Oxford (King John) and Cambridge (Macbeth) series of Shakespeare editions. He is also general editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare. 

Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University and general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. His books include Imagining Shakespeare, The Authentic Shakespeare, Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England and The Illusion of Power.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

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Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	ix
	A Note on Titles	x
	Introduction	1
	Three Plays or a Trilogy?	1
	Theatricality and Modernity	6
	Origins	27
	History and Pseudo-history	32
	The Fall of Duke Humphrey	36
	Dramatic Style: Henry and Margaret	40
	Suffolk and Margaret	44
	Jack Cade's Rebellion	50
	The Outbreak of War	57
	Date and Chronology	60
	Textual Introduction	75
	Q as a reported text	78
	Revision in the Folio text	87
	The Folio text and this edition	98
	Editorial Procedures	101
	Abbreviations and References	102
	Henry VI, Part Two	105
Appendix A	Passages from the Quarto Text	289
Appendix B	Chronicle Sources	295
Appendix C	Alterations to Lineation	307
	Index	311

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