
Henry VI, Part II
the new oxford shakespeare
$23.52
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2026
Summary
Henry VI, Part II: A Kingdom Undone
‘The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.’
Henry VI, Part II opens with a wedding and ends with a civil war, cycling through witchcraft, adultery, multiple murders, pirates, and an entire popular rebellion across its five acts. Its characters are larger-than-life, wielding curses as easily as they do swords or daggers, conjuring demons to seek prophetic knowledge, and transforming a struggle for the English throne into a cosmic b…
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9780198915348 |
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ISBN-10: | 0198915349 |
Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
Author: | Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Kavita Mudan Finn, Rory Loughnane, Emma Smith |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Number of Pages: | 240 |
Release Date: | 1 July 2026 |
Weight: | 0g |
Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm |
About The Author
Christopher Marlowe
Kavita Mudan Finn is an independent researcher in medieval and early modern literature, popular medievalism, and fan/reception studies. She has published two books, The Last Plantagenet Consorts (2012) and Global Medievalism (2022), co-authored with Helen Young. Her work has appeared in Viator, Shakespeare, Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, Arthuriana, Critical Survey, The Journal of Fandom Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Transformative Works & Cultures, and a range of edited volumes. She is a freelance editor and indexer, and is writing a biography of the fifteenth-century queen Elizabeth Woodville.
Rory Loughnane is Reader in Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent. He is the author or editor of ten books and has published widely on Shakespeare. For the New Oxford Shakespeare, he has edited more than ten of Shakespeare’s plays. He is a Series Editor of Studies in Early Modern Authorship and Shakespeare and Text, and a General Editor of The Revels Plays series and the forthcoming Oxford Marlowe edition.
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