Henry VI, Part III (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: William Shakespeare
- First Published: 1595
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1455-1471
- Genres: Drama, History play
- Subjects: Folkloric or magical people, Magic or magicians, France or French people, England or English people, War, Kings, queens, or royalty, Witches or witchcraft, Fifteenth century, Civil wars, Knights or knighthood, Nobility, Heads of state, Princes or princesses, Wars of the Roses, Chivalry, Throne restoration
- Locales: France, England
Places Discussed
*Towton. Small Yorkshire town near which a great battle is fought. For Shakespeare’s audience, the Battle of Towton represented the Wars of the Roses at their worst. On stage political discord appears as familial discord when fathers and sons, fighting on opposite sides, kill each other. Elizabethans believed that civil war dismembered the body politic, and on the battlefield physical bodies are dismembered as when Lord Clifford’s head is cut off and put on the gates of York to replace the duke of York’s head. The battlefield also juxtaposes King...
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