King Henry VI Part 3: Third Series

In their lively and engaging edition of this sometimes neglected early play, Cox and Rasmussen make a strong claim for it as a remarkable work, revealing a confidence and sureness that very few earlier plays can rival. They show how the young Shakespeare, working closely from his chronicle sources, nevertheless freely shaped his complex material to make it both theatrically effective and poetically innovative. The resulting work creates, in Queen Margaret, one of Shakespeare's strongest female roles and is the source of the popular view of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick as kingmaker'. Focusing on the history of the play both in terms of both performance and criticism, the editors open it to a wide and challenging variety of interpretative and editorial paradigms.

Author: William Shakespeare
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
Published: 11/01/2001
Series: Arden Shakespeare Third
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.08w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781903436318
3rd Edition