Reviews for King Henry Vi, Part I (Webster's Korean Thesaurus Edition)

The average rating for King Henry Vi, Part I (Webster's Korean Thesaurus Edition) based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-05-16 00:00:00 Maria Cortese Henry VI Part 1, whether it be a genuine Part 1 or a prequel (critics differ), is nevertheless one of the first three plays Shakespeare wrote. It is a marvelously well-constructed piece of stage craft, particularly given the necessarily episodic story it has to tell, involving the three-fold narrative of England's loss of France through Joan of Arc, the quarrels between Gloucester the Lord Protector and Beaufort the Bishop of Winchester, and the rise of the conflict between the Houses of York and Lancaster. Shakespeare uses big effective scenes (the quarrel of Henry VI's "uncles" over the corpse of Henry V, the street battle between Gloucester and Beaufort's retainers, the Temple Garden dispute with its choosing of roses white and red) interspersed with continual updates to keep each strand of the plot vividly in the spectator's mind. There is surprisingly little genuine poetry here, but an abundance of vigorous blank verse and effective rhetoric. All in all, an excellent start to an unparalleled career.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-02-06 00:00:00 Hakon Nottveit In this play: death! speeches! Joan of Arc! more death! more speeches! wait, Joan of Arc!?