warning not to accept this opinion, with regard to The True Tragedy at any rate, since practically, as we shall see, the whole of that play lies embedded in the third part; and whoever wrote the one rewrote it into the other-almost without a doubt or so nearly so that any other influence or co-operation is of the slightest. This cannot at all be said of The Contention and Part II.

Mr. P. A. Daniel has summarised his time-analysis of this play as follows: "Time of this play eight days," with intervals. Day I, Act I. to Scene vi., Interval; Day 2, Act II. to Scene v.; Day 3, Act III. Scene i., Interval; Day 4, Act III. Scene ii.; Day 5, Act III. Scene iii., Interval; Day 6, Act III. Scene iv., Act IV. Scene i., Interval; Day 7, Act IV. Scenes ii. to vii., and Act v. to Scene iii., Interval; Day 8, Act v. Scenes iv. and v.

Historic period, say from death of Henry V., 31st August, 1422, to the treaty of marriage between Henry VI. and Margaret, end of 1444.

A few notes on the text, as here given, and I have done. I had begun to efface "the apostrophes and so miss the accent," as Holofernes puts it, in such words as placed, faced, moved, instead of plac'd, fac'd mov'd; when I was glad to find the Cambridge Shakespeare (2nd edition) gave me authority to do so. The removal of the note of admiration from O, to the end of the clause, has also been adopted. A longing to obliterate hyphens by the host has been resisted. Neither in modern nor early editions has principle or uniformity been observed to fall in with. A few more commas have been silently dropped. And the following original (or suggested) readings have been adopted :

entertalk, III. i. 63. See note on making these one word.

him, as in Ff for 'em, Iv. vii. 89.

Girt, as in Ff 1, 2, 3, for gird. See note on this undoubted correction. raging, wood, IV. vii. 35, and moody, mad, Iv. ii. 50, dehyphened. louted, IV. iii. 12, for the meaningless lowted. See note.

Adonis garden, as in Ff, for gardens. See note.

fully omitted (as in Ff), and passage rearranged to F 1, 1. iv. 15. halcyons days (as in Ff 1, 2) from halcyon, Ff 3, 4.

were (as in Ff) for was of Rowe, etc., 1. iv. 50.

appaled (appal'd Ff), 1. ii. 49, for appall'd. See note.

wrack, as in Ff, for wreck of commentators, I. i. 135. See note. slew as in Ff for flew of commentators 1. i. 124. See note.

wherein shipp'd, as in Ff 1, 2, 3, for where whipp'd of F 4 and mod. edd. v. i. 49.

regions, of Ff, for legions (of commentators), v. iii. 11.

nourish, of Ff, for marish (of commentators), 1. i. 50.

The Introductions to the three Parts are so dependent upon one another, that none of them can be regarded as a separate whole.

I am very anxious here to say a word, which is also painfully difficult to me to say, on a subject always present in my thoughts and especially while at work at these editions of Shakespeare's plays. I refer to the death of our general editor, my old, long-tried and most highly valued friend William J. Craig. It is needless but very pleasurable to dwell upon his never-failing courtesy and tact-his unselfish and never withheld advice and assistance as well as his continued resourcefulness in matters Shakespearian, the chiefest labours of his love. All who knew him knew these things in him. In teaching me how to love Shakespeare thirty or more years ago he taught me how to love himself, and but for him my life perhaps would have been void of a prolonged joy. Whether we joined in a midnight foray on the Wicklow mountains, or on Dodsley's old plays, in those old Trinity days, he was always the most lovable and sociable of companions-and to the very end the ties between us never slackened-grappled with hoops of steel. Always broad-minded, and kind-hearted, always loyal, he leaves a gap amongst his mourning friends that they can only be thankful his presence once filled so full, while knowing it must now for ever remain empty save in the sweetness of memory and the knowledge of the beneficence of his influence.

DRAMATIS PERSONE1

KING HENRY THE SIXTH.

DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, Uncle to the King, and Protector.
DUKE OF BEDFORD, Uncle to the King, and Regent of France.
THOMAS BEAUFORT, Duke of Exeter, Great-uncle to the King.

HENRY BEAUFORT, Great-uncle to the King, Bishop of Winchester,

and afterwards Cardinal.

JOHN BEAUFORT, Earl, afterwards Duke, of Somerset.

RICHARD PLANTAGENET, Son of Richard, late Earl of Cambridge,

afterwards Duke of York.

EARL OF WARWICK.

alon

SIR WILLIAM LUCY.

SIR WILLIAM GLANSDALE.

SIR THOMAS GARGRAVE.

Mayor of London.

WOODVILE, Lieutenant of the Tower.

VERNON, of the White-Rose or York Faction.

BASSET, of the Red-Rose or Lancaster Faction.

A Lawyer. Mortimer's Keepers.

CHARLES, Dauphin, and afterwards King of France.

REIGNIER, Duke of Anjou, and titular King of Naples.

DUKE OF BURGUNDY.

DUKE OF ALENÇON.

BASTARD OF ORLEANS.

Governor of Paris.

Master-Gunner of Orleans, and his Son.

General of the French Forces in Bourdeaux.

A French Sergeant. A Porter.

An old Shepherd, Father to Foan la Pucelle.

MARGARET, Daughter to Reignier, afterwards married to King Henry.
COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE.

Joan la PucellE, commonly called Foan of Arc.

Lords, Warders of the Tower, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers,
Messengers, and Attendants.

Fiends appearing to Joan la Pucelle.

SCENE: Partly in England and partly in France.

1 First given imperfectly by Rowe; corrected by Cambridge Editors.

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THE FIRST PART OF
KING HENRY THE SIXTH

ACT I

SCENE I.-Westminster Abbey.

Dead March. Enter the Funeral of KING HENRY the Fifth,
attended on by the DUKE OF BEDFORD, Regent of France;
the DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, Protector; the DUKE OF
EXETER, the EARL OF WARWICK, the BISHOP OF WIN-
CHESTER, Heralds, &c.

Bed. Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!
Comets, importing change of times and states,

King Henry the Sixth] Henry the Sixt F1; King Henry VI F 4.
minster Abbey] Theobald. Fifth] Fift F 1, Fifth F 4.
Malone; and the Duke of Somerset. Ff.

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