Henry VI, Part 1, often referred to as 1 Henry VI, is a history play by William Shakespeare—possibly in collaboration with Thomas Nashe and others—believed to have been written in 1591. It is set duri
First page of The first Part of Henry the Sixt from the First Folio (1623).
Frederick and Alfred Heath engraving of Scene in the Temple Garden by John Pettie (1871)
H. C. Selous's illustration of Joan's fiends abandoning her in Act 5, Scene 3; from The Plays of William Shakespeare: The Historical Plays, edited by Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke (1830)
Title page from the 1550 edition of Edward Hall's The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster and York.
Henry VI, Part 3 is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591 and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Whereas 1 Henry VI deals with the loss of Engla
First page of The third Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Duke of Yorke from the First Folio (1623)
T. Brown engraving of The Death of the Earl of Warwick by John Adam Houston, from The Works of Shakespeare: Imperial Edition, edited by Charles Knight (1870)
The Murder of Rutland by Lord Clifford by Charles Robert Leslie (1815). Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.