num_pages: 162
description: If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts.The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos.The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan “look ” none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances.
language: English
title: The First Part of Henry the Sixth (Applause Books)
titlecomplete: The First Part of Henry the Sixth (Applause Books) (Pt. 1)
characters: Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, Henry Beaufort, Cardinal of Winchester, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, General of the French Garrison at Bordeaux, Jacques Darc, Master Gunner of Orléans, Charles VII of France, Henry VI of England, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, Jeanne d'Arc, Vernon of the Yorkist (White Rose) Faction, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, Sir William Lucy, John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, A Lawyer of the Temple, Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Master Gunner's son, Jean II, Duke of Alençon, René of Anjou, Countess of Auvergne, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, Sir John Fastolf, Nicholas Watton, Lord Mayor of London, Jean de Dunois, Basset of the Lancastrian (Red Rose) faction, A Papal Legate, Eleanor Cobham, Margaret of Anjou, Sir William Glasdale, Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, Sir Thomas Gargrave
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Historical, British Literature, Plays, Historical Fiction, Poetry, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 8603
places: England
series: Shakespeare's Minor Tetralogy, Henry VI, Wars of the Roses
publisher: Applause