Henry VI, Part 1

Henry VI, Part 1 Criticism

• Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (Vol. 56)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • The Three Parts of Henry VI
    • The First Part of King Henry the Sixth
    • I Henry VI and 2 & 3 Henry VI
  • Criticism: Historical Representation
    • The Hero in History: A Reading of Henry VI
    • The Henry VI Plays: In Pursuit of the Ground
    • Rebellion, Class Consciousness, and Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI
    • The Farce of History: Miracle, Combat, and Rebellion in 2 Henry VI
    • ‘More Than History Can Pattern’: The Jack Cade Rebellion in Shakespeare's Henry VI, 2
    • The Theater, the Market, and the Subject of History
  • Criticism: Stagecraft And Spectacle
    • Some Aspects of Style in the Henry VI Plays
    • Elizabethan Civic Pageantry in Henry VI
    • Stagecraft and Imagery in Shakespeare's Henry VI
    • The Duke and the Beggar in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI
  • Further Reading
• Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (Vol. 63)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Gender and Value in 1 Henry VI: The Role of Joan de Pucelle
    • Fearful Simile: Stealing the Breech in Shakespeare's Chronicle Plays
  • Criticism: Henry Vi As Comedy
    • Comedy in Shakespeare's Yorkist Tetralogy
    • The Dark Comedy of the Henry VI Plays
  • Criticism: Playing With History
    • Ironic Lapses: Plotting in Henry VI
    • Suffolk and Margaret: A Study of Some Sections of Shakespeare's Henry VI
    • Jack Cade in the Garden: Class Consciousness and Class Conflict in 2 Henry VI
  • Criticism: Unity And Design
    • ‘I Am But Shadow of Myself’: Ceremony and Design in 1 Henry VI
    • Oaths in Shakespeare's Henry VI Plays
    • Public Men, Private Wills, and Kingship in Henry VI, Part III
    • Unnaturalness in Shakespeare's 3 Henry VI
  • Further Reading
• Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (Vol. 74)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Characterization in Shakespeare's Early History Plays
    • Shakespeare and Humphrey Duke of Gloucester: A Study in Myth
    • Rehabilitating John Somerville in 3 Henry VI.
    • Henry VI, Part Three
    • Introduction to King Henry VI Part 3
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Review of Henry VI
    • Making it New: Katie Mitchell Refashions Shakespeare-History
    • ‘This England’: Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon, Winter 2000-2001
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Shakespeare's Henry VI Trilogy and Elizabethan ‘Romance’ Histories: The Origins of a Genre
    • Shakespeare as Media Critic: Communication Theory and Historiography
    • No Rainbow without the Sun: Visibility and Embodiment in 1 Henry VI.
    • Frozen with Fear: Virgil's Aeneid and Act 4, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's The Second Part of King Henry VI.
    • Cover-up: The Murder of Gloucester in 2 Henry VI.
    • Sport, War, and Contest in Shakespeare's Henry VI
    • Jack Cade's Legal Carnival
  • Further Reading
• Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (Vol. 85)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • Introduction to The Second Part of King Henry VI
    • Introduction to Henry VI, Part Two
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Topical Ideology: Witches, Amazons, and Shakespeare's Joan of Arc
    • Sons of Eve: Ambiguity and Gender in the First Tetralogy
    • Shakespeare's Queen Margaret: Unruly or Unruled?
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Review of Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3
    • Swinging It by Golden Twilight
    • Review of Rose Rage
    • Review of Rose Rage
    • Review of Henry VI: Revenge in France, Henry VI: Revolt in England
  • Criticism: Themes
    • ‘Art and Baleful Sorcery’: The Counterconsciousness of Henry VI, Part 1.
    • Myth and Anti-Myth in the First Tetralogy
    • The Paper Trail to the Throne
  • Further Reading
• The Many-Headed Monster in Henry VI, Part 2
• Shakespeare at Work: The Two Talbots
• Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (Vol. 39)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • Legitimacy and Sovereign Power: 1, 2, and 3 Henry VI
    • Henry VI
  • Kingship
    • 3 Henry VI: Kinship
    • The Henry VI Plays
  • Civil Disorder
    • Historical Kings/Theatrical Clowns
    • The Jack Cade Scenes Reconsidered: Popular Rebellion, Utopia, or Carnival?
  • Structural And Thematic Unity
    • Getting Loose in the Henry VI Plays
    • The Decay of Empire
  • Talbot And English Nationalism
  • Further Reading