Henry VI, Part II: A History

Spanning approximately fifty years beginning with the coronation of the king upon the death of Henry V and concluding with the fall of the House of Lancaster, William Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy reveals the king’s struggles under the pressures of prolonged wars with his foreign territories in France and Ireland, and the civil war that threatens his reign.

Strife within the English court escalates into the War of the Roses in Henry VI, Part II. As the king proves unable to resolve the diff...