The Second Part of King Henry VI

A series of outstanding productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company and others has recently demonstrated the theatrical vitality of Shakespeare's plays about the reign of Henry VI. This is the first major edition for over thirty years of The Second Part of King Henry VI, a play which offers a searing account of aristocratic sedition. It portrays the complex relationship between the King and his Protector, and contains a subtle reading of the kind of event that the Tudor regime had cause to fear, a popular uprising.William Shakespeare is the author of 'The Second Part of King Henry VI', published 1991 under ISBN 9780521377041 and ISBN 0521377048.