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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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