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Article: Misthinking the king: the theatrics of Christian rule in Henry VI, Part 3.(Critical essay)
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- Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature
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- June 22, 2008
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IF we were to trust A Mirror for Magistrates, Henry VI "him selfe was cause of the destruccion of many noble princes, being of all other most vnfortunate him selfe" (211). Or was he king Henry the syxt a vertuous prince, [who] was after many other miseries cruelly murdered in the Tower of London" (211, my italics)? Who was murdered in the Tower, the "Henry the Sixt" in the 1559 table of contents or "The vertuous King, Henry the sixt" in the 1571 edition (524-25)? In each subsequent edition through 1587, that "vertuous" complements a poem rife with switchbacks. On the one hand, Henry VI presents himself like imitator Christi: "The solace of the soule my chiefest pleasure ...
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Article: King Henry VI, Part III: Act V, Scene VI
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... ... Enter KING HENRY VI and GLOUCESTER, with the Lieutenant ... What, at your book so hard? KING HENRY VI: Ay, my good lord:--my lord ... confer. [Exit Lieutenant.] KING HENRY VI: So flies the reckless shepherd from ...
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