Henry VI, Part 2
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Henry VI, Part 2 is a Shakespearean history play about King Henry VI of England's inability to quell the bickering of his noblemen, the death of his trusted advisor Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and t
The title page of The second Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Good Duke Humfrey from the First Folio (1623)
The Conjuration by John Opie (1792)
A lithograph depicting Act I Scene IV
Title page from the 1550 edition of Edward Hall's The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster and York
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In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were in three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies. Alongside the history plays of his Renaissance playwright contemporaries, the histori
Henry VI, Part 2
…Henry VI, Part 2 (1591) is a Shakespearean history play about King Henry VI of England's inability to quell the bickering of his noblemen, the death of his trusted advisor Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester…
The First Folio (1623): The title page of the history play The Life and Death of King John.
The Informal Coronation of Henry VII by Lord Stanley on the Battlefield of Bosworth, August 22, 1485 depicts a key historical event in the Tudor claim to the Throne of England. (Richard Caton Woodville Jr.)
King Henry VI, Part I: Joan of Arc conjures demons for battle against the English invaders of France. (C. Warren, 1805)
'Falstaff', (Adolfo Hohenstein)—according to Danby, "in every sense, the bigger man" than Hal