Shakespeare's History : Introduction to the Interpretation of the FIRST PART of KING HENRY the SIXTH and the English Histories

by Brown, Guy Story

• ISBN13: 9780881462807
• ISBN10: 0881462802
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-06-30
• Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr

Summary

The First Part of King Henry the Sixth is perhaps Shakespeare's first work for the stage and, also, his most controversial history play. From the vantage of his opening act its close study affords the original introduction to all the histories and the Shakespearean stage as such, as well as to his idea of time and the world generally, that is, to the Shakespearean education. It is an initiation the result of which is the emergence of a world and, even, a Shakespeare that is more than a little strange to us, whether seen through the lens of the old conventions or the revisions of recent academic criticism, but, at the same time, one almost certainly more familiar to the original editors of the 1623 Folio, and as fresh as the poet everyone is drawn to in the first place.

Table of Contents

Introduction "Will Nothing Turn Your Unrelenting Hearts?"	p. 1
The Funeral of King Henry V of England: 1 Henry VI, I.i	p. 22
The Siege of King Charles VII of France: 1 Henry VI, I.ii	p. 71
The Kingdom of King Reignier of Jerusalem: 1 Henry VI, I.iii The Struggles for the Tower	p. 122
The Liberation of Orleans: 1 Henry VI, I.iv-vi	p. 172
The Siege of Orleans	p. 174
The Liberation of Orleans	p. 200
Orleans Triumphant	p. 219
Notes	p. 231
Index	p. 269
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