King Henry VI, Part 3

The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series

By: William Shakespeare, John D. Cox (Editor), Eric Rasmussen (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 March 2009 | Edition Number 3

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In their lively and engaging edition of this sometimes neglected early play, Cox and Rasmussen make a strong claim for it as a remarkable work, revealing a confidence and sureness that very few earlier plays can rival. They show how the young Shakespeare, working closely from his chronicle sources, nevertheless freely shaped his complex material to make it both theatrically effective and poetically innovative. The resulting work creates, in Queen Margaret, one of Shakespeare's strongest female roles and is the source of the popular view of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick as `kingmaker'. Focusing on the history of the play both in terms of both performance and criticism, the editors open it to a wide and challenging variety of interpretative and editorial paradigms.

About the Authors

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born in Stratford-upon-Avon where his father was a prosperous glover. His early life is obscure, but he married Anne Hathaway in 1682 with whom he had two children. By 1592 he was establishing himself in London, and over the next twenty years he wrote thirty-seven plays-and contributed to many more-was a prolific poet, and was taken up by several influential patrons. His Sonnets were first printed in 1609 by George Eld for Thomas Thorpe. The identity of Mr. W.H. to whom the Sonnets are dedicated remains a mystery, as does the identity of the aristocratic youth in the Sonnets and the enigmatic Dark Lady.

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List of illustrations	p. ix
General editors' preface	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
A play for the stage	p. 5
The politics of adaptation on the English stage	p. 11
3 Henry VI on the screen and around the globe	p. 33
The first critical question: single authorship or collaboration?	p. 44
Moral criticism	p. 49
Character criticism	p. 64
Henry	p. 68
Richard	p. 75
Historical criticism: determining sources	p. 81
Historical criticism: establishing context	p. 95
Psychoanalytic criticism	p. 113
New criticism	p. 117
Performance criticism	p. 135
Feminist criticism	p. 140
The texts of The True Tragedy and 3 Henry VI	p. 148
O (1595)	p. 149
Q2 (1600)	p. 151
Q3 (1619)	p. 152
F1 (1623)	p. 156
Origins of The True Tragedy	p. 159
Origins of 3 Henry VI	p. 166
Conclusions	p. 175
King Henry VI, Part Three	p. 177
Appendices
The Octavo (1595)	p. 369
Casting	p. 410
The battles in 3 Henry VI	p. 421
Genealogical tables	p. 424
Abbreviations and references	p. 428
Abbreviations used in notes	p. 428
Shakespeare's works and works partly by Shakespeare	p. 429
Editions of Shakespeare collated	p. 430
Other works	p. 431
Index	p. 453
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