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Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare | |
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| Name: |
William Shakespeare | | Birth Date: |
April 23, 1564 | | Death Date: |
April 23, 1616 | | Place of Birth: |
Stratford-upon-Avon, England | | Place of Death: |
Stratford-upon-Avon, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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 Biography of William Shakespeare
35385 words, approx. 118 pages
 "He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake... summary from source:
 Biography of William Shakespeare
30474 words, approx. 101.6 pages
"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake... summary from source:
Biography of William Shakespeare
10254 words, approx. 34.2 pages
William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditio...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Henry VI, Part 1 Information
1,809 words, approx. 6 pages
 The First Part of King Henry the Sixth is one of Shakespeare's history plays. It is the first in the cycle of four plays often referred to as "The First...
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 The Washington Post `Henry VI': Battles Royal
10/04/1996: 356 words, approx. 1 pages "Henry VI" Through Nov. 3 Shakespeare Theatre Tickets: 202/393-2700 "Being a fight director is like taking another man's wife out to lunch," says Rick Sordelet, who designed the Shakespeare Theatre's current skirmishes. "It's tricky. You're serving as the director in that scene. The director... summary from source:
The Washington Post `Henry VI': Coming Up Roses
09/25/1996: 974 words, approx. 3 pages All the sharks have pretty teeth in the production of "Henry VI" that opened last night at the Shakespeare Theatre. The heroic Henry V, whom Shakespeare Theatre audiences may remember from Michael Kahn's stunning production last season, is dead. The resulting power vacuum sucks...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Michael Hattaway
14,478 words, approx. 48 pages
In the following excerpt, Hattaway views Henry VI, Part 2 as a radical political work that features Shakespeare's sweeping reconstruction of English history concentrated on the power of the mighty.
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Critical Essay by Alexander Leggatt
14,390 words, approx. 48 pages
In following essay, Leggatt calls attention to the shifting perspectives the Henry VI plays afford of Richard's progressive development as a mythic figure of unadulterated evil and of Henry as a man who is unqualified to rule yet who espouses the values that everyone else in the trilogy appears to have discarded.
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Critical Essay by David Riggs
14,325 words, approx. 48 pages
In the excerpt below, Riggs traces Shakespeare's general theme of the deterioration of heroic idealism that took place between the Hundred Years' War and the Yorkist accession in Henry VI.
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