Shakespeare's Histories : Volume Four William Shakespeare (1554 - 1616) King Henry VIII Henry VIII is a collaborative history play, written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, based on the life of King Henry VIII of England.
Robert N. Watson, Shakespeare and the Hazards of Ambition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984), p. 20. Janet Adelman, 'Born of woman, fantasies of maternal power in Macbeth', in Cannibals, Witches, and Divorce: Estranging the ...
King Henry VI, Part III Henry VI, Part 1 (often written as 1 Henry VI), is a history play by William Shakespeare, and possibly Thomas Nashe, believed to have been written in 1591, and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England.
It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War.
Published to critical acclaim, the central argument of this book is that the historical play must be studied as a genre separate from tragedy and comedy.
Occasionally, however, as in the quarto edition, it is termed a tragedy. Richard III concludes Shakespeare's first tetralogy (also containing Henry VI parts 1-3).
Shakespeare's Histories
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