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King Henry VI

(part 1 - part 2 - part 3)

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The First Part of King Henry VI

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The First Part of King Henry VI

Englisch-deutsche Studienausgabe:

King Henry VI Part I / König Heinrich VI. Teil I

herausgegeben, übersetzt und kommentiert von Jennifer Janet Jermann

Stauffenburg Verlag

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Henry VI: Part One
on-line editions / translations / sources / historical context / productions, performances / film versions / adaptations in literature / adaptations in music / paintings / criticism / in the classroom / deutsche Webseiten - just for fun


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on-line editions

Folio (1623) [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/DraftTxt/index.html#toc3] (09/05/00)

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


translations

Koning Hendrik VI, 1
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/]

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]

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]

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)

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)


historical context

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)

Maid of Orleans: Biography, links to reception in literature and music. [http://frenchculture.about.com/culture/frenchculture/library/weekly/aa082498.htm]

French site on
Jeanne d'Arc [http://www.jeanne-darc.com/]

The Trial of Joan of Arc (transcript in English) [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/joanofarc-trial.html]

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productions, performances

a) stage history

Current and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in the UK [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/performance/shakespeare%20productions.html] (April 2002)

The Traffic on Stage (Shakespeare Productions 1999 - 2002 in the UK) [http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/testjon3/] (April 2002)

Shakespeare at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (1906-1960) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/Birmingham/home.html] (April 2002)

b) actors, pictures of 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)

c) reviews of productions

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)

McCallum, Pamela, U. of Calgary. Cultural Memory and the
RSC Productions "This England: The Histories," Winter/Spring 2001: Some Comments on Roberta Barker's "Well-Graced Actors and Their Doubles." MLS, 2002 [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-3/07-3toc.htm] (Febr. 2002)

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


film versions

Internet Movie Database [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Shakespeare,+William
Shakespeare on Television: a bibliography of criticism [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/diazbibl.htm]
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) dir. Luc Besson. [http://www.kinopolis.de/filminfo/j/johannavonorleans1999.html]; film script

Henry VI, Part One (1983) (BBC, TV) dir. Jane Howell [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085668]
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]

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]

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adaptations in literature

Friedrich Schiller,
Die Jungfrau von Orleans [http://projekt.gutenberg.de/schiller/jungfrau/jfo0.htm]

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

Bertolt Brecht, Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe

Paul Claudel, Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher

George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan (1923)


adaptations in music

Balfe, Michael William.
Joan of Arc, opera (1837), [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]

Dello Joio, Norman.
The Triumph of St. Joan, opera (1950, rev. 1959); The Trial at Rouen, opera (1956) [http://www.hapka.com/usopera/composers/dellojoio/] (May 2002)

Honegger, Arthur.
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher, szenische Kantate, [http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/honegger.html] with extracts: [http://www.langdonjones.com/joan.html]

Verdi, Giuseppe. Giovanna d'Arco libretto: Temistocle Solera (15.2.1845)


paintings, illustrations

Shakespeare illustrated [http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/HenryVIPaintings.html]
Boydell, London 1803 copperplates:
Countess, Talbot [http://www.graphic-photo.de/0113.html]; Temple Garden [http://www.graphic-photo.de/0114.html]; Mortimer, Jailor, Richard [http://www.graphic-photo.de/0115.html]
"Talbot and the Countess of Auvergne", Orchardson, W.Q. (picture from Knight's Imperial Edition) at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Febr. 2002)
"The scene in the Temple Garden", Pettie, J. (picture from
Knight's Imperial Edition) at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Febr. 2002)

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criticism

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]

McCallum, Pamela, U. of Calgary. Cultural Memory and the RSC Productions "This England: The Histories," Winter/Spring 2001: Some Comments on Roberta Barker's "Well-Graced Actors and Their Doubles." MLS, 2002 [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-3/07-3toc.htm] (Febr. 2002)

Merriam, Thomas.
Faustian Joan , pp. 218-220 in: Notes and Queries, vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)

Moulton: From The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, ed. Charles Wells Moulton, 8 vols. (London: Moulton Publishing, 1901), 1: 480-82. [http://geocities.com/litpageplus/shakmoul-h6pt1.html]

Touchstone: UK Shakespeare Collections [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/] (April 2002)

Touchstone Database access to descriptions of UK Shakespeare collections and online catalogues: The Shakespeare Institute Library / The Shakespeare Centre Library/ Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office / Birmingham Central Library [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/database.html] (April 2002)


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 I [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#tophenry6pt1.html#h61]

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 I [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#tophenry6pt1.html#h61]

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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just for fun


Perry, Janice.
Quick-time Movies on Joan of Arc (clothing, at the stake, burning ect.) [http://www.janiceperry.com/index.htm] (June 2002)

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