description: Henry VI, Part 1 is an uncompromising celebration of early English nationalism that contrasts the English with the French, portrayed here as effeminate and scheming.A boy king, Henry VI, is on the English throne, and the indomitable Talbot leads the English cause in France. Joan La Pucelle (Joan of Arc), who becomes captain of the French, claims to be chosen by the Virgin Mary to liberate France. The English, however, consider her a sensual witch.Many of the English nobility remain, quarreling, at home. Once in France, some seek permission to fight each other there. Talbot and his son cannot prevail; the English defeat themselves by preying on each other.
language: English
title: King Henry VI, Part 1
titlecomplete: King Henry VI, Part 1
characters: Master Gunner of Orléans, Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, A Lawyer of the Temple, Jeanne d'Arc, Sir William Glasdale, Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Nicholas Watton, Lord Mayor of London, Countess of Auvergne, Basset of the Lancastrian (Red Rose) faction, Vernon of the Yorkist (White Rose) Faction, Margaret of Anjou, Charles VII of France, Sir William Lucy, Master Gunner's son, John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, Eleanor Cobham, Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, Henry Beaufort, Cardinal of Winchester, Jacques Darc, Sir John Fastolf, Sir Thomas Gargrave, A Papal Legate, Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, Jean de Dunois, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, General of the French Garrison at Bordeaux, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Henry VI of England, Jean II, Duke of Alençon, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, René of Anjou
genres: Drama, Theatre, Historical, Literature, Plays, Poetry, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 8609
places: England
series: Henry VI, Wars of the Roses, Shakespeare's Minor Tetralogy
publisher: Bloomsbury Arden