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| | English 145B |
 | | The chief authority for the authorship of Shakespeare's plays is the "First Folio" edition, published in 1623, a collection of the plays by John Heming (or Hemings) and Henry Condell, two of Shakespeare's colleagues in his theatrical company, The King's Men. |
 | | He probably began with what later came to be called the "First Tetralogy" (consisting of four plays, Henry VI, Part One, Henry VI, Part Two, Henry VI, Part Three, and Richard III), tracing the background and struggles of rival families for the crown during the so-called "War of the Roses" in fifteenth-century England. |
 | | But in the Second Tetralogy, Shakespeare is also interested in tracing the "education to kingship" of England's supposedly ideal king, Henry V, while in the First Tetralogy, he concentrates on the disastrous consequences that the rebellion against established authority can lead to. |
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