Henry VI Part 2

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Simon and Schuster, 2011 M08 23 - 384 páginas
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Henry VI, Part 2 presents a kind of story that was popular before Shakespeare began writing, tracing the fall of powerful individuals to their untimely deaths. The first to go is the Duke of Gloucester, Lord Protector of England and the most powerful man in the kingdom, who is murdered after his wife goes into exile.

Next to meet a bad end is the Duke of Suffolk, the queen's lover, who rules England through her. After Suffolk conspires with the cardinal of Winchester to kill Gloucester, he is banished and assassinated. The cardinal dies raving of his own guilt.

Ultimately, the king's weakness lies behind these events. Preferring spiritual contemplation, he has left others to contend for power. Now his liberty is at risk as Jack Cade, and then the Duke of York, rise against him. The play leaves us in suspense about Henry's fate by ending with the start of the Wars of the Roses—a conflict setting the white rose of the Duke of York against the red rose of King Henry, of the House of Lancaster.

The authoritative edition of Henry VI, Part 2 from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, is now available as an eBook. Features include:

· The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference
· Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation
· Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
· Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
· Scene-by-scene plot summaries
· A key to famous lines and phrases
· An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language
· Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books
· An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play

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Editors Preface
xi
Henry VI Part 2
xv
Henry VI Part 2
xix
Shakespeares Life
xxxiii
Shakespeares Theater
xliii
The Publication of Shakespeares Plays
liii
An Introduction to This Text
lvii
Text of the Play with Commentary
1
ACT 4 Scene 2
175
ACT 4 Scene 3
187
ACT 4 Scene 4
189
ACT 4 Scene 5
193
ACT 4 Scene 6
195
ACT 4 Scene 7
197
ACT 4 Scene 8
205
ACT 4 Scene 9
209

ACT 1 Scene 1
7
ACT 1 Scene 2
25
ACT 1 Scene 3
33
ACT 1 Scene 4
49
ACT 2 Scene 1
59
ACT 2 Scene 2
75
ACT 2 Scene 3
81
ACT 2 Scene 4
89
ACT 3 Scene 1
101
ACT 3 Scene 2
127
ACT 3 Scene 3
157
ACT 4 Scene 1
163
ACT 4 Scene 10
215
ACT 5 Scene 1
223
ACT 5 Scene 2
241
ACT 5 Scene 3
247
Longer Notes
251
Textual Notes
261
Appendices
265
A Modern Perspective
271
Further Reading
285
Key to Famous Lines and Phrases
317
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Acerca del autor (2011)

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

Barbara A. Mowat is Director of Research emerita at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Consulting Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare’s Romances and of essays on Shakespeare’s plays and their editing.

Paul Werstine is Professor of English at the Graduate School and at King’s University College at Western University. He is a general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare and author of Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare and of many papers and articles on the printing and editing of Shakespeare’s plays.

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TítuloHenry VI Part 2
Folger Shakespeare Library
AutorWilliam Shakespeare
EditoresDr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine
EditorSimon and Schuster, 2011
ISBN1451644493, 9781451644494
Largo384 páginas
  
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