The First Part of King Henry the Sixth (Revised Edition) (The Pelican Shakespeare) - Softcover

Braunmuller, A.; Orgel, Stephen; Shakespeare, William

 
9780140714654: The First Part of King Henry the Sixth (Revised Edition) (The Pelican Shakespeare)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140714650 ISBN 13: 9780140714654
Verlag: Penguin, 2000

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The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel
 
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come.
 
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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

A. R. Braunmuller is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he teaches courses on English and European drama from 1500 to the present. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman and has edited plays in both the Oxford (King John) and Cambridge (Macbeth) series of Shakespeare editions. He is also general editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare was born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote about 38 plays (the precise number is uncertain), many of which are regarded as the most exceptional works of drama ever produced, including Romeo and Juliet (1595), Henry V (1599), Hamlet (1601), Othello (1604), King Lear (1606) and Macbeth (1606), as well as a collection of 154 sonnets, which number among the most profound and influential love poetry in English. Shakespeare died in Stratford in 1616.

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The First Part of Henry the Sixth

¥    I.1 Dead march. Enter the funeral of King Henry the Fifth, attended on by the Duke of Bedford, Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, the Duke of Exeter, the Earl of Warwick, the Bishop of Winchester, and the Duke of Somerset.

bedford

Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to night!

Comets, importing change of times and states,

2

Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky,

And with them scourge the bad revolting stars

4

That have consented unto Henry's death-

King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long.

England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.

gloucester

England ne'er had a king until his time.

Virtue he had, deserving to command.

9

His brandished sword did blind men with his beams.

10

His arms spread wider than a dragon's wings.

His sparkling eyes, replete with wrathful fire,

More dazzled and drove back his enemies

Than midday sun, fierce bent against their faces.

What should I say? His deeds exceed all speech.

He ne'er lift up his hand but conquerd.

16

exeter

We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?

17

Henry is dead, and never shall revive.

Upon a wooden coffin we attend,

And death's dishonorable victory

20

We with our stately presence glorify,

Like captives bound to a triumphant car.

22

What, shall we curse the planets of mishap,

That plotted thus our glory's overthrow?

Or shall we think the subtle-witted French

Conjurers and sorcerers, that, afraid of him,

By magic verses have contrived his end?

bishop of winchester

He was a king blessed of the King of Kings.

Unto the French, the dreadful judgment day

So dreadful will not be as was his sight.

30

The battles of the Lord of Hosts he fought.

The church's prayers made him so prosperous.

32

gloucester

The church? Where is it? Had not churchmen prayed,

33

His thread of life had not so soon decayed.

None do you like but an effeminate prince,

Whom like a schoolboy you may overawe.

bishop of winchester

Gloucester, whate'er we like, thou art Protector,

And lookest to command the prince and realm.

Thy wife is proud: she holdeth thee in awe,

39

More than God or religious churchmen may.

40

gloucester

Name not religion, for thou lov'st the flesh,

And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st,

Except it be to pray against thy foes.

bedford

Cease, cease these jars, and rest your minds in peace.

44

Let's to the altar. Heralds, wait on us.

Exeunt Warwick, Somerset, and Heralds with coffin.

Instead of gold, we'll offer up our arms-

46

Since arms avail not, now that Henry's dead.

Posterity, await for wretched years,

48

When, at their mothers' moistened eyes, babes shall suck,

Our isle be made a marish of salt tears,

50

And none but women left to wail the dead.

Henry the Fifth, thy ghost I invocate:

Prosper this realm; keep it from civil broils;

53

Combat with adverse planets in the heavens.

A far more glorious star thy soul will make

Than Julius Caesar or bright-

Enter a Messenger.

messenger

My honorable lords, health to you all.

Sad tidings bring I to you out of France,

Of loss, of slaughter, and discomfiture.

Guyenne, Compigne, Rouen, Rheims, OrlŽans,

60

Paris, Gisors, Poitiers are all quite lost.

bedford

What sayst thou, man, before dead Henry's corpse?

Speak softly, or the loss of those great towns

Will make him burst his lead and rise from death.

64

gloucester To the Messenger

Is Paris lost? Is Rouen yielded up?

If Henry were recalled to life again,

These news would cause him once more yield the ghost.

exeter To the Messenger

How were they lost? What treachery was used?

messenger

No treachery, but want of men and money.

Amongst the soldiers this is mutterd:

70

That here you maintain several factions,

And whilst a field should be dispatched and fought,

72

You are disputing of your generals.

73

One would have ling'ring wars, with little cost;

Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings;

75

A third thinks, without expense at all,

By guileful fair words peace may be obtained.

Awake, awake, English nobility!

Let not sloth dim your honors new-begot.

Cropped are the flower-de-luces in your arms;

80

Of England's coat, one half is cut away.Exit.

exeter

Were our tears wanting to this funeral,

82

These tidings would call forth her flowing tides.

83

bedford

Me they concern; Regent I am of France.

Give me my steeld coat. I'll fight for France.

Away with these disgraceful wailing robes!

He removes his mourning robe.

Wounds will I lend the French, instead of eyes,

87

To weep their intermissive miseries.

88

Enter to them another Messenger, with letters.

second messenger

Lords, view these letters, full of bad mischance.

France is revolted from the English quite,

90

Except some petty towns of no import.

The Dauphin Charles is crownd king in Rheims;

The Bastard of OrlŽans with him is joined;

RenŽ, Duke of Anjou, doth take his part;

The Duke of Alenon flieth to his side.Exit.

exeter

The dauphin crownd king? All fly to him?

O, whither shall we fly from this reproach?

gloucester

We will not fly, but to our enemies' throats.

Bedford, if thou be slack, I'll fight it out.

bedford

Gloucester, why doubt'st thou of my forwardness?

100

An army have I mustered in my thoughts,

Wherewith already France is overrun.

Enter another Messenger.

third messenger

My gracious lords, to add to your laments,

Wherewith you now bedew King Henry's hearse,

I must inform you of a dismal fight

105

Betwixt the stout Lord Talbot and the French.

106

bishop of winchester

What, wherein Talbot overcame-is't so?

third messenger

O no, wherein Lord Talbot was o'erthrown.

The circumstance I'll tell you more at large.

109

The tenth of August last, this dreadful lord,

110

Retiring from the siege of OrlŽans,

Having full scarce six thousand in his troop,

112

By three and twenty thousand of the French

Was round encompassd and set upon.

No leisure had he to enrank his men.

He wanted pikes to set before his archers-

116

Instead whereof, sharp stakes plucked out of hedges

They pitchd in the ground confusdly,

To keep the horsemen off from breaking in.

More than three hours the fight continud,

120

Where valiant Talbot above human thought

Enacted wonders with his sword and lance.

Hundreds he sent to hell, and none durst stand him;

123

Here, there, and everywhere, enraged he slew.

The French exclaimed the devil was in arms:

All the whole army stood agazed on him.

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2000
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