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39 the well-educated young man described in Holinshed’s Chronicles; he is a conflation of the historical Jack Cade who led a reb ...
40 I CAN SMILE AND MURDER WHILES I SMILE HENRY VI PART 3 (1591) A fter the Yorkists’ victory at St. Albans, Henry VI is forced t ...
to rouse Henry to fight. In the Battle of Towton, Warwick saves Richard from Clifford. Henry laments the tragedy of civil war. C ...
42 H enry VI Part 3 is the last of Shakespeare’s three plays about the reign of Henry VI (1422–61 and 1470–71). It covers the bl ...
43 Henry VI meditates on the brutality of civil war, watching son kill father and father kill son, in this amalgam of Shakespear ...
44 THIS BRAWL TODAY... SHALL SEND BETWEEN THE RED ROSE AND THE WHITE A THOUSAND SOULS TO DEATH AND DEADLY NIGHT HENRY VI PART 1 ...
Somerset ends in them plucking red and white roses to signify their opposing loyalties. Richard’s uncle Mortimer tells him how t ...
46 E vidence suggests that Henry VI Part 1 was written after the second two parts of the Henry VI trilogy, and staged, to great ...
47 An illustration from a 15th-century French manuscript shows Joan of Arc leading the siege of Paris in 1429. It suited the pla ...
WHY THERE THEY ARE BOTH BAKED IN THIS PIE TITUS ANDRONICUS (1591–1592) ...
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50 S aturninus and Bassianus quarrel over who should become Emperor of Rome. Marcus tells them that the hero, Titus Andronicus, ...
51 Titus’s son Lucius reveals that he has been banished, and sees the mutilated Lavinia. Aaron tells Titus that if he, Martius, ...
52 T itus Andronicus is perhaps best known for its extreme violence. It features at least five stabbings, two throat slittings, ...
53 whose leaves are drops of new-shed blood / ...A very fatal place it seems to me” (2.3.198–200, 202). In this way, the play an ...
MADE GLORIOUS SUMMER BY THIS SON OF YORK RICHARD III (1592) ...
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56 T he long and bloody civil war between the houses of York and Lancaster has ended with the murder, in prison, of the Lancastr ...
57 who, filled with grief, haunts the palace and in vain warns everyone against Richard. Richard now seeks the support of London ...
58 R ichard’s opening speech sets the stage by moving us from the wintry horrors of the battlefield to the summer holiday that p ...
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