num_pages: 336
description: Shakespeare's Henry VI plays dramatize contemporary as much as Elizabethan 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 contemporaryrelevance in a wide-ranging introduction and detailed commentary.
language: English
title: Henry VI, Part Two
titlecomplete: Henry VI, Part Two (Oxford World's Classics)
characters: Duke of Somerset, William de la Pole, Mayor of St Albans, Walter Whitmore, Roger Bolingbroke, Lord Saye, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Edward, Earl of March, Lord Clifford, Duke of Buckingham, George Bevis, Alexander Iden, Lord Scales, Sir John Stanley, John Hum, Matthew Gough, Young Clifford, Simpcox's wife, Sheriff of London, Jack Cade, Earl of Salisbury, Asmath, Cardinal Beaufort, King Henry VI, King of England, John Holland, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, Earl of Warwick, John Southwell, Sir Humphrey Stafford, Thomas Horner, Margery Jourdayne, Alderman of St Albans, Sander Simpcox, Duchess Eleanor of Gloucester, Richard Plantagenet, William Stafford, Queen Margaret, Peter Thump
genres: 16th Century, Historical Fiction, Theatre, Historical, Drama, Plays, Poetry, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 7418
series: Henry VI, Shakespeare's Minor Tetralogy, Wars of the Roses
publisher: Oxford University Press