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Ncs: Third Part of King Henry VI

Ncs: Third Part of King Henry VI

Shakespeare, William
Hattaway, Michael

Paperback

Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare

Fiction AnthologiesShakespeare

Publisher Price: $14.00

ISBN10: 0521377056
ISBN13: 9780521377058
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 4 1993
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.23 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A series of outstanding productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company and others have recently demonstrated the theatrical vitality of Shakespeare's plays about the reign of Henry VI. In the Third Part Shakespeare extends his essay on monarchical politics by contrasting two kings, the good but ineffective Henry VI with his rival, the sensual and victorious Edward IV. He also offers more evidence of the perils of aristocratic factionalism in a series of scenes that display the grievous wounds caused by the Wars of the Roses. Here we watch the savage death of the Duke of York at the hands of Queen Margaret, the moving lament of King Henry as he witnesses the slaughter of the battle of Towton where the Lancastrians were defeated, and finally, Henry's death at the hands of Richard of Gloucester, later King Richard III.

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