Henry VI, Part III | Henry VI, Part III

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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

*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...

Henry VI, Part III | Henry VI, Part III

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