Henry VI, Part 1

William Shakespeare · c. 1591 CE · Play · English · Renaissance

With Henry V dead and his heir a child, the English hold on France comes apart under a divided regency and the advance of Joan la Pucelle. At home Yorkists and Lancastrians pluck red and white roses in the Temple garden and begin keeping score. The quarrel that will drown England begins.

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