The First Part of King Henry VI Shakespeare Hattaway Hardback 9780521227544

The First Part of King Henry VI\n\nThe First Part of King Henry VI gives us Shakespeare's portrait of Joan of Arc, a prelude to key events in the Hundred Years War.\n\nWilliam Shakespeare (Author), Michael Hattaway (Edited by)\n\n9780521227544, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 23 April 1990\n\n228 pages\n23.5 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.408 kg\n\nThe New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. Shakespeare's plays about the reign of King Henry VI were written at the beginning of his career. A recent series of outstanding productions has demonstrated their theatrical vitality, and their sceptical questioning of Elizabethan orthodoxies has been understood through revisionist readings of the history of Shakespeare's own t]