THE FIRST PART OF
KING HENRY THE SIXTH

EDITED BY

TUCKER BROOKE

NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY

MAR 2 1 1991

COPYRIGHT, 1918

Br Yale UNIVERSITY PRESS
Printed in the United States of America

First published, December, 1918

Second printing, July, 1949
Third printing, February, 1961

All rights reserved to the editorial contribu-
tions to this edition, which may not be repro-
duced, in whole or in part, in any form, except
by written permission from the publishers,

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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The Text . .

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Notes . . . . . . .

APPENDIX A. Sources of the Play :

APPENDIX B. The History of the Play :

APPENDIX C. The Authorship of the Play

I. Shakespeare's Concern in It .

II. The Author of the Original Play

1. Marlowe? . . . .

2. Greene? . . . .

3. Peele? . . . .

APPENDIX D. The Text of the Present Edi-

The map on the next page is a modified reproduction of "one included in the famous Atlas of
ORTELIUS (edition of 1580), those places only being indicated which are of interest in con-
nection with the 'First Part of Henry VI' and 'Henry V.' Parallels of latitude are reckoned
eastwardly around the globe from a line in the Atlantic Ocean about 20 degrees west of
Greenwich; parallels of longitude are as in modern maps. The two lines of dashes mark the
approximate limits of English dominion in France prior to the relief of Orleans in 1429.
Only the central district, south of the Loire and east of Bordeaux, and the besieged city of
Orleans then recognized the Dauphin's authority.