During the conflict, Clifford murders York's twelve-year-old son, Rutland. Margaret attacks York's castle at Wakefield, and the Yorkists lose the ensuing battle (1460). Disgusted with this decision, which would disinherit the King's son, Prince Edward, the King's supporters, led by his wife, Margaret, abandon him, and Margaret declares war on the Yorkists, supported by Clifford, who is determined to exact revenge for the death of his father at the hands of York during the battle of St Albans. Threatened with violence by Warwick, who has brought part of his army with him, the King reaches an agreement with York which will allow him to remain king until his death, at which time the throne will permanently pass to the House of York and its descendants. Upon reaching the parliamentary chambers in London, York seats himself in the throne, and a confrontation ensues between his supporters and Henry's. The play begins where 2 Henry VI left off, with the victorious Yorkists (Duke of York, Edward, Richard, Warwick, Montague and Norfolk) pursuing Henry and Margaret from the battlefield in the wake of the First Battle of St Albans (1455). Soldiers, messengers, drummers, attendants, etc.Lieutenant of the Tower (a conflation of John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester and John Sutton, 6th Baron Dudley).John Brett, Mayor of Coventry (non-speaking role).Two aldermen of York (non-speaking roles).Lord Bourbon – Admiral of France (non-speaking role).Lady Bona of Savoy – Louis' sister-in-law.Prince Edward – Elizabeth and Edward IV's son (non-speaking role).Lady Grey – later Queen Elizabeth to Edward IV.Sir Hugh Mortimer – York's uncle (non-speaking role).From Act 2 onwards, the character represents Salisbury's son and Warwick's younger brother John Neville, Marquis of Montague) The Act 1 persona is that of the Earl of Salisbury, Warwick's father, and a major character in 2 Henry VI. Montague (two different 'versions' of the character appear in the play, each one representing a different historical figure.Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Rutland – York's youngest son.Richard Plantagenet – later Duke of Gloucester York's son.George Plantagenet – later Duke of Clarence York's son and Warwick's son-in-law.Edward Plantagenet, Earl of March – later King Edward IV York's eldest son.Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York – Henry VI's second cousin once removed, asserts he should be King. Henry, Earl of Richmond (as a boy, later Henry VII, non-speaking role) - Henry VI's nephew.Earl of Westmorland - Henry VI's second cousin.Earl of Northumberland - Henry VI's second cousin.Duke of Somerset (a conflation of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset and Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, his younger brother) - Henry VI's second cousin.Duke of Exeter - Henry VI's second cousin.Henry VI, Part 3 features one of the longest soliloquies in all of Shakespeare (3.2.124–195) and has more battle scenes (four on stage, one reported) than any other of Shakespeare's plays. It was the success of this sequence of plays that firmly established Shakespeare's reputation as a playwright. Whereas 1 Henry VI deals with the loss of England's French territories and the political machinations leading up to the Wars of the Roses and 2 Henry VI focuses on the King's inability to quell the bickering of his nobles, and the inevitability of armed conflict, 3 Henry VI deals primarily with the horrors of that conflict, with the once stable nation thrown into chaos and barbarism as families break down and moral codes are subverted in the pursuit of revenge and power.Īlthough the Henry VI trilogy may not have been written in chronological order, the three plays are often grouped together with Richard III to form a tetralogy covering the entire Wars of the Roses saga, from the death of Henry V in 1422 to the rise to power of Henry VII in 1485. Henry VI, Part 3 (often written as 3 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591 and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. First page of The third Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Duke of Yorke from the First Folio (1623)
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