num_pages: 192
description: The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. 
language: English
title: Henry VI, Part 2
titlecomplete: 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: Penguin Classics