Henry VI, Part II
The New Oxford Shakespeare
$17.75
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2026
Summary
‘The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.’
Henry VI, Part II opens with a wedding and ends with a civil war, cycling through witchcraft, adultery, multiple murders, pirates, and an entire popular rebellion across its five acts. Its characters are larger-than-life, wielding curses as easily as they do swords or daggers, conjuring demons to seek prophetic knowledge, and transforming a struggle for the English throne into a cosmic blood feud between the houses of York and Lanca…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198915348 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198915349 |
| Author: | Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Kavita Mudan Finn, Rory Loughnane, Emma Smith |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 147g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 128mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
Christopher Marlowe
Kavita Mudan Finn is an independent researcher specializing in medieval and early modern literature, popular medievalism, and fan/reception studies. She is the author of two books: The Last Plantagenet Consorts (2012) and Global Medievalism (2022), the latter co-authored with Helen Young. Her research has been published in Viator, Shakespeare, Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, Arthuriana, Critical Survey, The Journal of Fandom Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Transformative Works & Cultures, and various edited collections. Finn also works as a freelance editor and indexer, and is currently writing a biography of the fifteenth-century queen Elizabeth Woodville.
Rory Loughnane is a Reader in Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent. He has authored or edited ten books and has published extensively on Shakespeare. For The New Oxford Shakespeare, he has edited over ten of Shakespeare’s plays. Loughnane is a Series Editor for Studies in Early Modern Authorship and Shakespeare and Text, and a General Editor for The Revels Plays series and the upcoming Oxford Marlowe edition.
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