Henry VI Part 1 (1918) Yale

by William Shakespeare

For other versions of this work, see Henry VI, Part 1 (Shakespeare).

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THE FIRST PART OF
KING HENRY THE SIXTH

 

EDITED BY
TUCKER BROOKE

 

 

NEW HAVEN • YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON • HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS • MCMXVIII

 

Copyright, 1918
By Yale University Press

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First published, December, 1918

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
		PAGE
The Text		1
⁠Act I		1
⁠Act II		25
⁠Act III		44
⁠Act IV		63
⁠Act V		84
Notes		106
Appendix A. Sources of the Play		128
Appendix B. The History of the Play		133
Appendix C. The Authorship of the Play
I.	Shakespeare's Concern in It	138
II.	The Author of the Original Play
⁠	1.⁠ Marlowe?	147
	2.⁠ Greene?	150
	3.⁠ Peele?	151
Appendix D. The Text of the Present Edition		154
Appendix E. Suggestions for Collateral Reading		155
Index of Words Glossed		157

 

The map on the next page is a modified reproduction of one included in the famous Atlas of Ortelius (edition of 1850), those places only being indicated which are of interest in connection with the 'First Part of Henry VI' and 'Henry V.' Parallels of latitude are reckoned eastwardly around the globe from a line in the Atlantic Ocean about 20 degrees west of Greenwich; parallels of longitude are as in modern maps. The two lines of dashes mark the approximate limits of English dominion in France prior to the relief of Orleans in 1429. Only the central district, south of the Loire and east of Bordeaux, and the besieged city of Orleans then recognized the Dauphin's authority.

 

THE YALE SHAKESPEARE

 

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Edited by

Wilbur L. Cross⁠Tucker Brooke

Willard Higley Durham

 

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Published under the Direction

of the

Department of English, Yale University,

on the Fund

Given to the Yale University Press in 1917

by the Members of the

Kingsley Trust Association

To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

of the Founding of the Society