num_pages: 132
description: New versions of Shakespeare's history plays from director and translator Douglas Langworthy.In his three Henry VI plays, Shakespeare tackles the infamous Wars of the Roses and the fall of the House of Lancaster. In this translation of Henry VI, Part 1, Douglas Langworthy explores the initial unrest as a young Henry VI becomes king. Langworthy's translation takes a deep dive into the language of Shakespeare. With a fine-tooth comb, he updates passages that are archaic and difficult to the modern ear and matches them with the syntax and lyricism of the rest of the play, essentially translating archaic Shakespeare to match contemporary Shakespeare.This translation of Henry VI, Part 1 was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present the work of "The Bard" in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, this project reenvisions Shakespeare for the twenty-first century. These volumes make these works available for the first time in print--a new First Folio for a new era.
language: English
title: Henry VI, part 1
titlecomplete: Henry VI, part 1 (Shakespeare, Pelican)
characters: Sir William Lucy, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, Jean de Dunois, Jeanne d'Arc, Master Gunner of Orléans, Sir John Fastolf, Jean II, Duke of Alençon, Basset of the Lancastrian (Red Rose) faction, Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, Charles VII of France, Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, Henry Beaufort, Cardinal of Winchester, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, General of the French Garrison at Bordeaux, Sir Thomas Gargrave, Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, Vernon of the Yorkist (White Rose) Faction, Henry VI of England, René of Anjou, Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, Margaret of Anjou, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, A Papal Legate, Sir William Glasdale, A Lawyer of the Temple, Master Gunner's son, Eleanor Cobham, Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, Countess of Auvergne, Jacques Darc, Nicholas Watton, Lord Mayor of London
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Historical, Poetry, British Literature, Drama, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 8603
places: England
series: Wars of the Roses, Shakespeare's Minor Tetralogy, Henry VI
publisher: Penguin Classics