Messengers, a captain, lawyer, a gaoler, soldiers, heralds, scouts, on both the English and French sidesįrederick and Alfred Heath engraving of Scene in the Temple Garden by John Pettie (1871).General of the French forces at Bordeaux.Margaret – Reignier's daughter, later betrothed to King Henry.Reignier, Duke of Anjou – titular King of Jerusalem.Richard Woodville – Lieutenant of the Tower.Basset – of the Red Rose ( Lancaster) faction.Vernon – of the White Rose ( York) faction.Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March (a conflation of Sir Edmund Mortimer and his nephew, Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March).Earl of Warwick (Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick-often mistakenly identified as Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, from Henry VI, Part 2 and Henry VI, Part 3 ).Richard Plantagenet – later 3rd Duke of York.
Duke of Somerset (a conflation of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset and his younger brother Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset).Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester – Exeter's younger brother and Henry VI's great-uncle.Duke of Exeter – Henry VI's great-uncle.Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester – Henry VI's uncle and Lord Protector of England.Duke of Bedford – Henry VI's uncle and regent of France.Along with Titus Andronicus, it is generally considered one of the strongest candidates for evidence that Shakespeare collaborated with other dramatists early in his career. Some regard Henry VI, Part 1 as the weakest of Shakespeare's plays. It was the success of this sequence of plays that firmly established Shakespeare's reputation as a playwright. Whereas Henry VI, Part 2 deals with the King's inability to quell the bickering of his nobles and the inevitability of armed conflict and Henry VI, Part 3 deals with the horrors of that conflict, Henry VI, Part 1 deals with the loss of England's French territories and the political machinations leading up to the Wars of the Roses, as the English political system is torn apart by personal squabbles and petty jealousy.Īlthough the Henry VI trilogy may not have been written in chronological order, the three plays are often grouped together with Richard III to form a tetralogy covering the entire Wars of the Roses saga, from the death of Henry V in 1422 to the rise to power of Henry VII in 1485. It is set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Henry VI, Part 1, often referred to as 1 Henry VI, is a history play by William Shakespeare-possibly in collaboration with Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe-believed to have been written in 1591. First page of The first Part of Henry the Sixt from the First Folio (1623).
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