Title page THE THIRD PART OF KING HENRY VI. A TRAGEDY, by SHAKESPEARE. AN INTRODUCTION, AND NOTES CRITICAL and ILLUSTRATIVE, ARE ADDED, BY THE AUTHORS of the DRAMATIC CENSOR. LONDON: Printed for JOHN BELL, near Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand; and C. Etherington, at York. MDCCLXXIV.

INTRODUCTION.

THE THIRD PART OF KING HENRY VI. However commendable our Author might be in his desire of furnishing a Dramatic commemoration of such incidents and characters as are materially connected with the history of this island, yet we think him particularly unhappy in tracing the troubles and imbecilities of Henry the Sixth; for though he is very faithful and adequate in delineating personages, and correct in regard to facts, yet there is such an unavoidable sameness of incidents, such a want of matter in general to touch the tender passions, such a repetition of unentertaining, nay sometimes vulgar squabbles, amongst elevated characters, such repeated slaughters, and such a confused precipitancy of events, that these pieces cannot, with any great hope of success, be produced in action. In several places, it is true, the “Muse of fire” evidently breaks forth; and it is most certain no other author could have brought so much historical matter into the same compass, to so much and so great advantage.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. King Henry [King Henry the Sixth]. Edward Prince of Wales [Prince]. Lewis the Eleventh, the French King. Duke of York [Plantagenet]. Earl of March [Edward]. Duke of Clarence [George]. Duke of Gloster [Richard]. Earl of Rutland [Rutland]. Duke of Exeter. Duke of Norfolk. Duke of Somerset. Earl of Warwick. Marquess of Mountague [Marquis of Montague], his Brother. Earl of Westmorland [Earl of Westmoreland]. Earl of Oxford. Earl of Northumberland. Lord Clifford. Lord Hastings. Lord Rivers. Sir John Mortimer. Sir Hugh Mortimer. Sir John Montgomery. Sir John Somerville. A Nobleman. Lieutenant of the Tower. The Mayor of York. Humphrey, Huntsman. Sinklo, Huntsman. Another Huntsman. A Son, that has killed his Father. A Father that has killed his Son. Tutor to Rutland [Tutor]. Three Watchmen [Watchman 1], [Watchman 2], [Watchman 3]. Eight Messengers. Margaret [Queen Margaret], Queen to Henry. Lady Grey, afterwards Queen to Edward. Bona, Sister to the French Queen. Attendants, French and English. Soldiers of both Parties; Officers, &c. [Messenger], [Soldier], [Messenger 1], [Messenger 2] SCENE, dispersed; England and France.

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