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Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3: Critical Essay by Lisa Dickson

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SOURCE: Dickson, Lisa. “No Rainbow without the Sun: Visibility and Embodiment in 1 Henry VI.Modern Language Studies 30, no. 1 (spring 2000): 137-56.

In the following essay, Dickson contends that the world of Henry VI, Part 1 is one of chaos and upturned hierarchies, where the dead Henry V's role as prophet and sun king is ceded not to his own son, Henry VI, but to the French maiden Joan of Arc.

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