This collection of original essays provides a selection of current criticism on the Henry VI plays. Topics addressed will include feminist commentaries on the play, the principal of unity in the trilogy, the tradition of illumination of the play, textual variations, and finally, anachronism and allegory.

Introduction; 1: Texts with Two Faces; 2: A Touch of Greene, much Nashe, and all Shakespeare; 3: Henry VI in Japan; 4: The Progress of Revenge in the First Henriad; 5: Shakespeare's Queen Margaret; 6: The Paper Trail to the Throne; 7: Folk Magic in Henry VI, Parts 1 and 2; 8: Shakespeare's Medieval Devils and Joan La Pucelle in 1 Henry VI; 9: Climbing for Place in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI; 10: Henry VI, Part 2; 11: Theme and Design in Recent Productions of Henry VI; 12: Talking with York; 13: Henry VI; 14: Henry VI and the Art of Illustration