num_pages: 256
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 One
titlecomplete: Henry VI, Part One
characters: Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, Henry Beaufort, Cardinal of Winchester, General of the French Garrison at Bordeaux, Sir John Fastolf, Vernon of the Yorkist (White Rose) Faction, Master Gunner's son, Sir Thomas Gargrave, Jean de Dunois, A Papal Legate, A Lawyer of the Temple, Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, Sir William Glasdale, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, Basset of the Lancastrian (Red Rose) faction, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, Jeanne d'Arc, Master Gunner of Orléans, Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, Charles VII of France, Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, Nicholas Watton, Lord Mayor of London, Eleanor Cobham, Margaret of Anjou, Jean II, Duke of Alençon, Sir William Lucy, Countess of Auvergne, Henry VI of England, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, Jacques Darc, Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, René of Anjou, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk
genres: Historical, Literature, British Literature, Classics, Drama, Plays, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Theatre
ratings_count: 8603
places: England
series: Henry VI, Shakespeare's Minor Tetralogy, Wars of the Roses
publisher: Penguin Books