num_pages: 507
description: Shakespeare's Henry VI plays dramatize contemporary as much as Elizabethan issues: the struggle for power, the manoeuvres of politicians, social unrest, civil war. This edition draws on experience of the play in rehearsal and performance to focus on both its theatricality and contemporary relevance in a wide-ranging introduction and detailed commentary.
language: English
title: King Henry VI, Part 2
titlecomplete: King Henry VI, Part 2
characters: John Southwell, Lord Scales, Roger Bolingbroke, Sheriff of London, Earl of Warwick, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Duchess Eleanor of Gloucester, Young Clifford, Sir Humphrey Stafford, William Stafford, Cardinal Beaufort, Matthew Gough, Lord Saye, King Henry VI, King of England, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, John Hum, Richard Plantagenet, Thomas Horner, Earl of Salisbury, George Bevis, Walter Whitmore, Duke of Somerset, Peter Thump, Simpcox's wife, Mayor of St Albans, Edward, Earl of March, Jack Cade, Sander Simpcox, Sir John Stanley, Margery Jourdayne, Queen Margaret, John Holland, William de la Pole, Alexander Iden, Duke of Buckingham, Alderman of St Albans, Asmath, Lord Clifford
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Drama, Plays, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Poetry, 16th Century, Theatre
ratings_count: 7420
series: Henry VI, Shakespeare's Minor Tetralogy, Wars of the Roses
publisher: Thomson Learning