description: John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and as a set, and each contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary printed at the back. The edition, which began with The Tempest and ended with The Sonnets, put into practice the techniques and theories that had evolved under the 'New Bibliography'. Remarkably by today's standards, although it took the best part of half a century to produce, the New Shakespeare involved only a small band of editors besides Dover Wilson himself. As the volumes took shape, many of Dover Wilson's textual methods acquired general acceptance and became an established part of later editorial practice, for example in the Arden and New Cambridge Shakespeares.
language: English
title: The Second Part of King Henry VI
titlecomplete: The Second Part of King Henry VI
characters: John Southwell, Sheriff of London, Sir John Stanley, William Stafford, Earl of Salisbury, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, Mayor of St Albans, Asmath, Simpcox's wife, Sir Humphrey Stafford, King Henry VI, King of England, Walter Whitmore, Cardinal Beaufort, John Hum, Thomas Horner, Edward, Earl of March, Jack Cade, Lord Saye, Lord Scales, Peter Thump, Lord Clifford, Roger Bolingbroke, Alderman of St Albans, Duke of Buckingham, George Bevis, Duchess Eleanor of Gloucester, William de la Pole, John Holland, Sander Simpcox, Richard Plantagenet, Matthew Gough, Earl of Warwick, Alexander Iden, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Duke of Somerset, Margery Jourdayne, Queen Margaret, Young Clifford
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Historical, Plays, Historical Fiction, Poetry, Literature, 16th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 7418
series: Shakespeare's Minor Tetralogy, Henry VI, Wars of the Roses
publisher: Cambridge University Press