Henry VI Part 3

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Simon and Schuster, 2011 M08 23 - 384 páginas
Henry VI, Part 3 is dominated by a struggle between two military forces, neither of which can achieve victory for long. Until the end, the Yorkists and Lancastrians strive for the English crown. The conflict between these two families began under Richard II. Half a century later, during the reign of Henry VI, it moved toward civil war. Now, in Henry VI, Part 3, Henry’s long reign becomes intermittent as his cousin Richard, Duke of York, seeks the crown and York’s son Edward sporadically succeeds in seizing it.

As we watch the crown pass back and forth between Henry VI and Edward IV, our attention is caught by other characters: the Earl of Warwick, Queen Margaret, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Warwick is the power behind the challenge to Henry VI, until he shifts to Henry. Margaret raises an army in England and later leads one from France, all in a futile attempt to secure the throne for her son, Prince Edward. Historically, his death destroyed her, but Shakespeare wisely saves Margaret to bring her back in Richard III. Richard, Duke of Gloucester, increasingly draws our attention. Both attractive and repellent, he is energetic, self-aware, bitter about his deformity (which may not have existed historically), ruthless, and unable to care about others.

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Editors Preface
ix
Henry VI Part 3
xiii
Henry VI Part 3
xvii
Shakespeares Life
xxxi
Shakespeares Theater
xli
The Publication of Shakespeares Plays
li
An Introduction to This Text
lv
Text of the Play with Commentary
1
ACT 4 Scene 2
175
ACT 4 Scene 3
177
ACT 4 Scene 4
183
ACT 4 Scene 5
187
ACT 4 Scene 6
189
ACT 4 Scene 7
197
ACT 4 Scene 8
205
ACT 5 Scene 1
213

ACT 1 Scene 1
7
ACT 1 Scene 2
31
ACT 1 Scene 3
37
ACT 1 Scene 4
41
ACT 2 Scene 1
59
ACT 2 Scene 2
73
ACT 2 Scene 3
87
ACT 2 Scene 4
91
ACT 2 Scene 5
93
ACT 2 Scene 6
103
ACT 3 Scene 1
115
ACT 3 Scene 2
123
ACT 3 Scene 3
139
ACT 4 Scene 1
163
ACT 5 Scene 2
223
ACT 5 Scene 3
227
ACT 5 Scene 4
229
ACT 5 Scene 5
235
ACT 5 Scene 6
243
ACT 5 Scene 7
251
Longer Notes
255
Textual Notes
265
Appendices
271
A Modern Perspective
277
Further Reading
293
Key to Famous Lines and Phrases
319
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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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