Title page from The First Part of King Henry the Sixth

Part of: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (The Oxford Shakespeare) The First Part of King Henry the Sixth

Shakespeare’s three plays about Henry VI trace the tumultuous years of the Wars of the Roses, as the houses of York (whose symbol was a white rose) and Lancaster (symbolized by a red rose) battled for the crown of England. This edition comes from the 1916 Oxford University Press edition of all of Shakespeare’s plays and poems.

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