2753 .P5 948576 Text. First Folio, 1623. Line Numbering. EXPLANATORY At top of page, Globe Edition, every poetical line of which is numbered; at side of page, First Folio, every typographical line of which is numbered. Lines put between brackets in text are not numbered, because they are not in First Folio. Brackets Indicate stage directions, etc., in Globe, or parts of text in Globe but not in First Folio, these parts being given here as they appear in the earliest or the earliest complete Quarto. Italic Words In margins, thus, 1 blunt, refer to and explain obscure words. Foot-notes Cite in italics First Folio words emended; in bold-face, emendations adopted in Globe; in 'small capitals, earliest editions or first editor printing that emendation. Abbreviations. IQ. equals First Quarto, 2Q. Second Quarto, and so on; 1, 3-5Q. equals First, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Quartos, all substantially agreeing; Qo. equals all early Quartos. 2F. equals Second Folio, 3F. Third Folio, and so on; 2-4F. equals Second, Third, and Fourth Folios, all substantially agreeing. 1. equals line, 11. equals lines. THE INTRODUCTION ARGUMENT OF THE PLAY HE three parts of Henry the Sixt' continue the historical account from Henry the Fift.' The Wars of the Roses begin, and the narrative takes the aspect of bloody tragedy. The First Part chronicles, in the opening act, the early death of Henry V and the crowning of his son as Henry VI, who is heir to both the English and French thrones. News is received of severe losses to the French, who are seizing this moment of English weakness and private quarrels to retake many of their cities. The Dauphin is powerfully aided by a shepherd's daughter, Joan la Pucelle, or Joan of Arc. In Act II the disputes of Richard Plantagenet, afterward Duke of York, and John Beaufort, afterward Duke of Somerset, whose crests are decorated by white and red roses respectively, mark the beginning of civil strife in England. The French meanwhile are pressing their conquests (Act III), though opposed by the stanch Talbot, whose high merit is recognized by Henry VI on the occasion of his second coronation at Paris. Talbot is created Earl of Shrewsbury. Talbot, in Act IV, attempts to take Bordeaux, but is surrounded by a greatly superior force under the Dauphin. The wrangles of York and Somerset pre |