THE COMEDIES, HISTORIES,
TRAGEDIES, AND POEMS OF

William Shakespeare

WITH MEMOIR, INTRODUCTIONS, AND
NOTES BY RICHARD GRANT WHITE

REVISED, SUPPLEMENTED, AND ANNOTATED BY WILLIAM P.
TRENT, M.A., LL.D., PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, BENJAMIN W. WELLS,
PH.D., AND JOHN B. HEΝΝΕΜΑΝ, Μ.Α., PH.D.,
LATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH

In Eighteen Volumes

VOLUME EIGHT

THE AUTHORSHIP OF HENRY VI.
HENRY VI., PART FIRST
HENRY VI., PART SECOND

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CONTENTS

VOLUME EIGHT

AN ESSAY ON THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE THREE

PARTS OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH. PAGE vii

THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH

Act FIRST

1

17

THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH,

WITH THE DEATH OF THE GOOD DUKE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME EIGHT

Photogravured by Goupil & Co., Paris

THE DISPUTE IN THE TEMPLE GARDEN. Henry VI,

Part First, Act II, Sc. iv.

Frontispiece

From an engraving by F. A. Heath, after the painting by J.

Pettie.

TALBOT AND THE COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE. Henry

VI, Part First, Act II, Sc iii.

From an engraving by C. W. Sharpe, after the painting by

W. Q. Orchardson.

PENANCE OF THE DUCHESS OF GLOSTER. Henry VI,

Part Second, Act II., Sc. iv.

From an engraving by G. Goldberg, after the painting by C.

Green.

FACSIMILE

The First part of the Contention betwixt the two
famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster, with the
death of the good Duke Humphrey. 1594. Title-
page.

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