Article: Women's Matters: Politics, Gender and Nation in Shakespeare's Early History Plays.(Review)

Article: The many-headed monster in 'Henry VI, Part 2.'
Criticism;  June 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... a broad range of history plays, including Thomas ... Shakespeare's Henry VI, Parts 2 and 3 ... rebels.(3) 2 Henry VI, however, appears ... severed head, 2 Henry VI stands out among the Elizabethan history plays. In this play ...

Article: Theatre: A wet and wonderful farewell to magic The Tempest ...
The Independent - London;  December 17, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... the Bard's early clutch of history plays, Henry VI Parts 1, 2 & 3. These are the ... of Macbeth, the wife of young Henry VI's Protector ambitiously dabbling ... David Oyelowo as the boy-king Henry VI conveys both gentle dignity and ...

Article: From `Henry VI' To `Hip' to Uta Hagen
The Washington Post;  September 8, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... us "A Tuna Christmas." For anyone who has been following Kahn's progress through the tragedies and the history plays, "Henry VI" is highly anticipated. The three parts are thought to be Shakespeare's earliest known works for the stage ...

Article: Misthinking the king: the theatrics of Christian rule in ...
Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature;  June 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Mirror for Magistrates, Henry VI "him selfe was cause ... sovereign make? Could Henry VI's piety result in anything ... Thomas Nashe called history plays "a rare exercise of ... bleeding" Talbot of Henry VI, Part 1 was up to the ...

Article: Lords behaving badly in Henry's marathon triumph FIRST NIGHT ...
Evening Standard - London;  December 14, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Shakespeare's three-part Henry VI. We went in yesterday ... elated. For the neglected Henry VI, with its picture of ... conservative notion that the history plays show England rescued by ... Tudor monarchy. Boyd's Henry VI exposes a brutalised Machiavellian ...

Dictionary definition: Henry VI, Part Three
A Dictionary of Shakespeare;      581 words ...Henry VI, Part Three The third play ... x2019; PLAYS ). As with 2 Henry VI , the title may derive from ... Wars in the Reign of King Henry VI , given once only at Drury ... Bogdanov directed all the history plays in the two tetralogies for ...

Dictionary definition: Henry VI, Part One
A Dictionary of Shakespeare;      552 words ...Henry VI, Part One The first play in Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy ... Stratford-upon-Avon in 1977, and Michael Bogdanov directed all the history plays in the two tetralogies for the English Shakespeare Company (1986, filmed ...