num_pages: 266
description: It takes account of recent discoveries concerning Shakespeare's early career, and pays particular attention to recent theatrical history, relating readings generated by modern performances to new ideologically positioned accounts of the history and politics of Shakespeare's age. Part II offers a searing account of aristocratic sedition and a portrait of a relationship between the King and his Protector, Good Duke Humphrey, which is as complex as that between Prince Hal and his father Bolingbrook. It concerns itself with the nature of history, the role of conscience, and the relation between law and equity. It also contains a complex reading of the kind of event that the Tudor regime had cause to fear, a popular uprising, led in this instance by Jack Cade.
language: English
title: Second Part of King Henry VI
titlecomplete: Second Part of King Henry VI
characters: Alexander Iden, Richard Plantagenet, William Stafford, Earl of Salisbury, Edward, Earl of March, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Duke of Buckingham, John Southwell, Sander Simpcox, Sir John Stanley, Young Clifford, William de la Pole, Lord Saye, Lord Scales, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, Earl of Warwick, Sheriff of London, George Bevis, Queen Margaret, Alderman of St Albans, Peter Thump, Margery Jourdayne, Mayor of St Albans, John Holland, Walter Whitmore, Duke of Somerset, Roger Bolingbroke, Jack Cade, Cardinal Beaufort, Duchess Eleanor of Gloucester, Sir Humphrey Stafford, Thomas Horner, Lord Clifford, John Hum, Simpcox's wife, Matthew Gough, King Henry VI, King of England, Asmath
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Historical, Poetry, Drama, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction, 16th Century
ratings_count: 7418
series: Wars of the Roses, Shakespeare's Minor Tetralogy, Henry VI
publisher: Cambridge University Press