Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part Two (2003)

William Shakespeare.
Henry VI, Part Two.
Edited by Roger Warren.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
This edition was first published in 2003.

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Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.

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Editor:

• Roger Warren was a Senior Lecturer of English, University of Leicester.
• Roger Warren. Staging Shakespeare's Late Plays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
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• Roger Warren edited these other plays in The Oxford Shakespeare series:
  • William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, or What You Will. Edited by Roger Warren and Stanley Wells. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
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  • William Shakespeare. Cymbeline. Edited by Roger Warren. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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  • William Shakespeare. Pericles. Edited by Roger Warren. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
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  • William Shakespeare. The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Edited by Roger Warren. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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• Edward Hall and Roger Warren. Rose Rage: Adapted from Shakespeare's Henry VI Plays. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2001.
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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Shakespearean history.
• First Tetralogy: Henry VI, Part One; Henry VI, Part Two; Henry VI, Part Three; and Richard III.
• Henry VI, Part 2, written by 1591 or 1592; first published in 1594 as The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster.
  The play presents events in England of the 1440s to the mid-1450s.

English Renaissance Drama:

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English Renaissance theatre.

England during Shakespeare's Time:

• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603), Queen of England 1558–1603.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.
• James VI and I (1566–1625), King of England as James I, 1603–1625.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

Historical People and Events:

~~~ Lancastrians ~~~
• House of Lancaster.
• Henry VI of England (1421–1471); King of England 1422–1461 and 1470–1471.
• Margaret of Anjou (1430–1482); daughter of René of Anjou; wife of Henry VI 1445-1471; Queen consort of England 1445–1461 and 1470–1471.
• Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390–1447); fourth and youngest son of Henry IV; brother of Henry V; uncle of Henry VI; Lord Protector of England during the minority of Henry VI; arrested on a charge of treason in February 1447.
• Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester (c.1400–1452); wife of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester 1428–1441; Duchess of Gloucester 1436–1441; "in 1441 was forcibly divorced and sentenced to life imprisonment for treasonable necromancy".
• Henry Beaufort (c.1375–1447); Bishop of Winchester 1404–1447; Cardinal 1426–1447; son of John of Gaunt.
• William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1396–1450).
• Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1402–1460).
• John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (1404–1444); son of John Beaufort; grandson of John of Gaunt; maternal grandfather of Henry VII; a commander in France 1440s.
• Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406–1455); son of John Beaufort; grandson of John of Gaunt; rival of Richard, Duke of York; a commander in France 1440s–1450s; killed at the First Battle of St Albans.
• Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1436–1464); son of Edmund Beaufort and Eleanor Beauchamp, daughter of Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick; a commander of Lancastrian forces during the Wars of the Roses.
~~~ Yorkists ~~~
• House of York.
• Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (1411–1460); Richard Plantagenet; Duke of York 1425–1460; grandson of Edmund of Langley on his father's side; great-great-grandson of Lionel of Antwerp on his mother's side; (Edmund and Lionel were sons of Edward III); Lieutenant-general of France 1436–1437 and 1440-1445; Lieutenant of Ireland 1447–1460; Lord Protector April 1454 – January 1455.
• Edward Plantagenet (1442–1483); son of Richard, Duke of York; Earl of March 1442–1483; King of England as Edward IV 1460–1470 and 1471–1483.
• Richard Plantagenet (1452–1485); son of Richard, Duke of York; Duke of Gloucester 1461–1485; King of England as Richard III 1483–1485.
• Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1400–1460).
• Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428–1471); son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury; "Warwick the Kingmaker".
~~~ Events ~~~
• Hundred Years' War, 1415–1453, the Lancastrian War.
• Jack Cade's Rebellion, April – July 1450, south-east England.
• Wars of the Roses, 1455 – 1487.
• First Battle of St Albans, May 1455.

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In Our Time:

• Melvyn Bragg, Emma Smith, Gordon McMullan, Katherine Lewis, "Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 11 October 2018.
  • See episode notes for references.
• Melvyn Bragg, Helen Castor, Colin Richmond, Steven Gunn, "The Wars of the Roses," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 May 2000.
  • Helen Castor (b. 1968), Wikipedia.
  • Colin Richmond (b. 1937), Wikipedia.
  • Steven Gunn, Wikipedia.
  • Helen Castor. Blood and Roses: One Family's Struggle and Triumph During the Tumultuous Wars of the Roses. London: Faber and Faber, 2004. New York: Harper Perennial, 2007.
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  • Helen Castor. She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth. London: Faber and Faber, 2011. New York: Harper Perennial, 2012.
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  • The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling. Edited by Norman Davis. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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  • Christine Carpenter. The Wars of the Roses: Politics and the Constitution in England, c.1437–1509. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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• Melvyn Bragg, Katherine Lewis, James Ross, Joanna Laynesmith, "Margaret of Anjou," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 24 May 2018.
  • See episode notes for references.

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