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 Amazon.com: Henry VI Part I: Books: William Shakespeare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Part 1 was published in the First Folio of 1623; Part 2 appeared in quarto in 1594 and was printed from revised fair copies in the First Folio; and Part 3 appeared in quarto in 1595 and was printed from revised fair copies in the First Folio.
The second and third parts of Henry VI were originally performed as The Contention, a two-part chronicle dramatizing the events of the so-called War of the Roses, the struggle between the York and Lancaster families for the English throne.
Part 1, about the early part of the reign of Henry VI, concerns events preceding the opening of Part 2; whether it was a first effort at a historical play, written before The Contention, or a supplement to it that was written subsequently, it is less inspired.
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 Henry VI, king of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Henry VI, king of England: Character - Character Henry was a mild, honest, and pious man, a patron of literature and the arts and the...
Henry VI, king of England: Reign - Reign Early Years The only son of Henry V and Catherine of Valois, he became king of England when...
Protestant England; Henry pushed, and history shoved, toward Reformation.(The King's Reformation Henry VIII and the Remaking of the......
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Henry IV, Part One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Shakespeare’s King Henry IV, Part 1 (or 1 Henry IV) is his most highly praised history play and is generally considered one of his several masterpieces, whether it is seen as an autonomous drama independent of its sequel (2 Henry IV) or as the first half of a two-part work.
The two Henry IV plays are particularly well known because of their chief comic figure, the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, who is a character celebrated by a long series of critics from John Dryden to Harold Bloom as the best of all comic characters.
Many critics think Falstaff is at his best in Part 1, and for this and other reasons, Part 1 has often been preferred (though not unanimously) by critics discussing the merits of the two plays.
www.litdict.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4801   (467 words)

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