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King Henry VI

(part 1 - part 2 - part 3)

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The Second Part of King Henry VI

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The Second Part of King Henry VI


Englisch-deutsche Studienausgabe: in Bearbeitung
Bilingual edition forthcoming:
Stauffenburg Verlag

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on-line editions

Folio text (Hinman) of
Henry VI Part II, [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/DraftTxt/2H6/index.html]

Folio (1623), University of Virginia [http://etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/]


translations

Koning Hendrik VI, 2
Dutch translation. by Jan Jonk. [http://www.janjonk.nl/] (March 2002)

Enrico VI Shakespeare in Italian, transl. Goffredo Raponi: [http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/s/shakespeare/index.htm]

Enrico VI / Henry VI Italian version (PDF,.readable with Acrobat) [http://infoservice.dnsq.org/sh-drammi.html]

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sources

Daniel:
The First Fowre Bookes of the Civile Wars Between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke (1595) [http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/]

Grafton, R.
A Chronicle at Large, 1569 excerpt, (mainly: Robin Hood) [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/large.htm]

Geoffrey of Monmouth. Historia Regum Britanniae:
History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth, trans. by Aaron Thompson and J. A. Giles (PDF at InParentheses); pdf-file [http://www.InPar.dhs.org/count/inpar/files/geoffrey_thompson.pdf]

Edward Hall, 1548,
The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke,[http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/] (last visit: Oct. 2001)

Holinshed's Chronicles facsimile excerpts. [http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/] (last visit: Oct. 2001)

Holinshed,
Chronicles [http://www.cc.utah.edu/~mp2434/522arc.html]

The Furness Shakespeare Library: Online facsimile editions of Holinshed's Chronicles (1577); Foxe's Actes and Monuments (1610); A Mirovr for Magistrates (1610); [http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/] (last visit: Oct. 2001)
 
A Mirovr for Magistrates (1610) [http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/] (last visit: Oct. 2001)

not available:
Anon, The Life and Death of Jack Straw, 1593/4
Sir Thomas Coningsby, Journal of the Siege of Rouen, 1591
T. Nelson, Device for Lord Mayor's Pageant, 1590



historical context

The Wars of the Roses [http://www.northcoast.com/~ming/roses/roses.html]

Shakespeare and history [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/history/historysubj.html] (24/04/01)
The histories: historical background
[http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/history/thehistoriessubj.html] (24/04/01)
Order of Kings and Plays [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/history/chronologies.html] (24/04/01)
Henry VI [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/history/henryvi.html] (24/04/01)

Edelman, Charles. The Battle of Alcazar, Muly Molocco, and Shakespeare's 2 and 3 Henry VI , pp. 215-218 in: Notes and Queries, vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)

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productions, performances

The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs by Lesley Ellen Jorbin. Free searchable database for pictures of performances: photographs from the plays of Shakespeare on stage, screen, TV, opera and ballet. [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/] Histories [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/enghistory.shtml] (Jan. 2002)

Lennox, Patricia. A review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production of 1, 2, and 3 Henry VI Shakespeare Bulletin, winter 2002. [http://www.shakespeare-bulletin.org/issues/winter02/lennox.html] (July 2002)

film versions

Shakespeare on Television: a bibliography of criticism [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/diazbibl.htm]

Henry VI, Part Two (1983) (BBC, TV) dir. Jane Howell [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085670]
Cook, Hardy M.
"Jane Howell's BBC First Tetralogy: Theatrical and Televisual Manipulation." Literature/Film Quarterly. 20 (1992): 326-331. Shaksper webpage: [http://ws.bowiestate.edu/archives/files/index.html]

The War of the Roses. (1966) (BBC, TV) dir. John Barton, Peter Hall. David Warner as Henry. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0060039]

Campanadas a medianoche / Chimes at Midnight (Spain/Switzerland 1965) The career of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff, dir. Orson Welles [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0059012]

An Age of Kings (1960) (BBC, TV) dir. Michael Hayes. A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over the 86 years between Richard II and Richard III. 15 episodes, 60 min. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0239157]



adaptations in literature

Lanoye, Tom; Luk Perceval: TEN OORLOG (
SCHLACHTEN!) , see also: ShinE events (July 2000)

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criticism

Edelman, Charles. The Battle of Alcazar, Muly Molocco, and Shakespeare's 2 and 3 Henry VI , pp. 215-218 in: Notes and Queries, vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)

Hampton-Reeves, Stuart. "Alarums and Defeats: Henry VI on Tour." Early Modern Literary Studies 5.2 (September, 1999): 1.1-18 [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-2/hampalar.htm]

Moulton: From The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, ed. Charles Wells Moulton, 8 vols. (London: Moulton Publishing, 1901), 1: 482. [http://geocities.com/litpageplus/shakmoul-h6pt2.html]


in the classroom

see also on this site: Education - Shakespeare in the classroom

a) lesson plans for the lazy teacher

Cummings, Michael. The Complete Shakespeare - Study Guide to Shakespeare. [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#top] (Jan. 2002) Henry IV. Part II [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#tophenry6pt2.html#h62]

Marx, Steven.
Triangulating Shakespeare: teaching and lecture notes, course outlines, articles, links, suggestions, film reviews [http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Shakespeare/triang/Histories/histories.html]

b) sites for the eager student

Cummings, Michael.
The Complete Shakespeare - Study Guide to Shakespeare. [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#top] (Jan. 2002) Henry IV. Part II [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#tophenry6pt2.html#h62]

Shakespeare- For Teachers and Students: Internet School Library Media Centre [http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/shakes.htm] (Jan . 2002)

The Shakespeare you knever knew: The early history plays. Taught by Ralph Williams (University of Michigan). William Shakespeare's Henry VI (Parts 1-3) and Richard III as a single sustained story. [http://www.fathom.com/fks/catalog/course.jhtml?id=31702501]. payable. (May 2002)


deutsche Webseiten

Andriz, Rod.
Heinrich VI. Hintergründe und Informationen. [http://www.freunde.imperium.de/andriz/shakespeare/fo_heinrich6.htm]

Groechel, André.
Heinrich VI. Inhaltsangabe, Quellen, Motive, Links Informationen zu Quellen, Einführung ins Stück, Hintergründe, Links zu deutschen und englischen elektronischen Texten usw.
Falls der Link nicht klappt: [
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.deslit.de/shakespeare/henry6.htm]

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