num_pages: 608
description: Displaying the bold vision and growing skill of a young playwright, these are Shakespeare’s first three history plays, covering some sixty tumultuous years of English history. Their pageantry, violence, and stirring speeches excite audiences with action as well as character, and midway through the final play in this trilogy, a shocking, clever, inimitably evil new voice is heard—that of Richard of Gloucester, destined to become England’s most fearsome and hated ruler of all time, Richard III.
language: English
title: Henry VI: Parts One, Two, and Three
titlecomplete: Henry VI: Parts One, Two, and Three (Bantam Classics)
characters: Margaret of Anjou, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Elizabeth Woodville, Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, Richard III of England, Edward IV of England, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, Henry VI of England, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York
genres: Historical Fiction, Theatre, Historical, Drama, Plays, Poetry, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 744
places: England
publisher: Bantam