ABSTRACT

This collection of original essays provides a selection of current criticism on the Henry VI plays. Topics addressed will include feminist commentaries on the play, the principal of unity in the trilogy, the tradition of illumination of the play, textual variations, and finally, anachronism and allegory.

chapter |25 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|11 pages

Texts with Two Faces

Noticing Theatrical Revisions in Henry VI, Parts 2 and 3

chapter 3|10 pages

Henry VI in Japan

chapter 5|18 pages

Shakespeare's Queen Margaret

Unruly or Unruled?

chapter 7|13 pages

Folk Magic in Henry VI, Parts 1 and 2

Two Scenes of Embedding

chapter 8|29 pages

Shakespeare's Medieval Devils and Joan La Pucelle in 1 Henry VI

Semiotics, Iconography, and Feminist Criticism

chapter 10|28 pages

Henry VI, Part 2

Commodifying and Recommodifying the Past in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern England

chapter 12|16 pages

Talking with York

A Conversation with Steven Skybell

chapter 13|18 pages

Henry VI

A Television History in Four Parts