num_pages: 624
description: Displaying the bold vision and growing skill of a young playwright, these are Shakespeare’s first three history plays, covering some sixty tumultuous years of English history. Their pageantry, violence, and stirring speeches excite audiences with action as well as character, and midway through the final play in this trilogy, a shocking, clever, inimitably evil new voice is heard—that of Richard of Gloucester, destined to become England’s most fearsome and hated ruler of all time, Richard III.
language: English
title: Henry VI, parts 1, 2, and 3
titlecomplete: Henry VI, parts 1, 2, and 3 (Shakespeare, Signet Classic)
characters: Margaret of Anjou, Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, Richard III of England, Henry VI of England, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, Elizabeth Woodville, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Edward IV of England
genres: Historical, Literature, British Literature, Classics, Drama, Plays, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Theatre
ratings_count: 744
places: England
publisher: Signet Classics