num_pages: 264
description: It takes account of recent discoveries concerning Shakespeare's early career, and pays particular attention to recent theatrical history, relating readings generated by modern performances to new ideologically positioned accounts of the history and politics of Shakespeare's age. Part II offers a searing account of aristocratic sedition and a portrait of a relationship between the King and his Protector, Good Duke Humphrey, which is as complex as that between Prince Hal and his father Bolingbrook. It concerns itself with the nature of history, the role of conscience, and the relation between law and equity. It also contains a complex reading of the kind of event that the Tudor regime had cause to fear, a popular uprising, led in this instance by Jack Cade.
language: English
title: The Second Part of King Henry VI
titlecomplete: The Second Part of King Henry VI
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: Cambridge University Press