First Part of King Henry VI

A series of outstanding productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company and others has recently demonstrated the theatrical vitality of Shakespeare's plays about the reign of Henry VI. This is the first major edition of the plays for over twenty-five years. The First Part of King Henry VI, which gives us Shakespeare's portrait of Joan of Arc, stands revealed both as a successful venture in its own exploratory style, and as a necessary account of key events in the Hundred Years War without which the Wars of the Roses, anatomised in the next two plays, cannot be understood.Shakespeare, William is the author of 'First Part of King Henry VI' with ISBN 9780521296342 and ISBN 052129634X.