Throughout Shakespeare's history plays there is a constant theme the loneliness that comes with absolute power. Henry VI at Towton echoes his father Henry V at Agincourt, just as Henry V echoes his father Henry IV before him. Father and son lament the loss of selfhood. It is in the end all the same. There is no set plan.
Fortune is fickle, and so is Man.
History simply is. Joan K Andrews Literary Consultant Back to Henry VI main page.