num_pages: 123
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: Henry VI, Part 1
titlecomplete: Henry VI, Part 1
characters: Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, Henry Beaufort, Cardinal of Winchester, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, General of the French Garrison at Bordeaux, Jacques Darc, Master Gunner of Orléans, Charles VII of France, Henry VI of England, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, Jeanne d'Arc, Vernon of the Yorkist (White Rose) Faction, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, Sir William Lucy, John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, A Lawyer of the Temple, Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Master Gunner's son, Jean II, Duke of Alençon, René of Anjou, Countess of Auvergne, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, Sir John Fastolf, Nicholas Watton, Lord Mayor of London, Jean de Dunois, Basset of the Lancastrian (Red Rose) faction, A Papal Legate, Eleanor Cobham, Margaret of Anjou, Sir William Glasdale, Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, Sir Thomas Gargrave
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Historical, British Literature, Plays, Historical Fiction, Poetry, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 8603
places: England
series: Shakespeare's Minor Tetralogy, Henry VI, Wars of the Roses
publisher: Penguin Classics