Henry VI, Part I, 9780192873569
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War, ambition, and unrest: England battles itself and France.
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Summary

“No, no, I am but shadow of myself…”

Henry VI, Part I paints a vivid picture of political ambition, civil unrest, and war. One of Shakespeare’s most collaborative plays, it was a theatrical hit when it was first performed in 1592. Scenes alternate between conflict at home and on foreign soil: between the growing civil dissention that would lead to the Wars of the Roses and the battles of the Hundred Years’ War over England’s claim to the French throne. It is an action-packed …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780192873569
ISBN-10:0192873563
Author:William Shakespeare, Anonymous, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, Amy Lidster, Sarah Neville, Emma Smith
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:1 July 2026
Weight:147g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 12mm
Series:Oxford World's Classics
About The Author

William Shakespeare

Amy Lidster is a Lecturer and Career Development Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She has published widely on Shakespeare and early modern drama, and her books include Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare (2022), Wartime Shakespeare: Performing Narratives of Conflict (2023), and Authorships and Authority in Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts.

Sarah Neville is an Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University with a courtesy appointment in Theatre, Film, and Media Arts. She specializes in early modern English literature, bibliography, theories of textuality, and performance, chiefly examining the ways that authority is negotiated in print, digital, and live media. She is an assistant editor of The New Oxford Shakespeare (2016-17), for which she edited five plays in both old and modern-spelling editions, as well as an associate coordinating editor of the Digital Renaissance Editions.

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