King Henry VI, First Part

Henry VI, Part 1, chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime in 1589–92 and published in the First Folio of 1623. Henry VI, Part 1 is the first in a sequence of four history plays (the others being Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 3, and Richard III) known collectively as the “first tetralogy,” treating the Wars of the Roses between the houses of Lancaster and York. Shakespeare’s primary sources for the historical events in the play were the chronicles of Edward Ha...