...title page indicates both the episodic chronicle structure of the play and its historical subject: "The First part of the Contention betwixt the two...banishment and death of the Duke of Suffolke, and the Tragicall end of the proud Cardinall of Winchester, with the notable Rebellion of lacke Cade: And the...

...described on its title-page as The First Part of the Contention betwixt the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster, with the death of the good Duke Humphrey and the banishment and death of the Duke of Suffolk, and the tragical end of the proud Cardinal of Winchester, with the notable rebellion of Jack...

...'bear' passage is here given from both (Shakespeare 1953): The quarto edition, first printed in 1594 as The First Part of the Contention Betwixt the Two Famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster (there is no division into Acts etc.) (Shakespeare 1953: 727-28), has: CLIFFORD: I am resolv'd to beare...

...Library. ending with Henry VIII. Let me skip to the second tetralogy; from the wonderfully descriptive The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Laneaster, with the death of the good Duke Humphrey; And the banishment of and death of the Duke o/Suffolkc,...

...SHAKESPEARE'S TIME 1 When first printed in quarto form, the play now called Henry VI, Part II was titled The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of York and Lancaster and Henry VI, Part III was titled The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of Yorke. It...

...texts: the two versions of murderers' scenes in 2 Henry VI and Richard III. First published in 1594 as The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of York and Lancaster . . . , 2 Henry VI was printed in a radically different and longer form in the 1623...

...Richard Duke of York (or 'bad' j Henry 6) (1595); furthermore critics often assign to Pembroke's Men The First Part of the Contention Betwixt the two Famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster ('bad' 2 Henry 6) (1594, SR 12 March 1594), because the titlepage of its sequel, True Tragedy, names...

...Heney VI plays were reworkings of Mnilovun originals, and that Marlowe might even have had a hand in The First Part of the Contention betwixt the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (published 1594} and The Tme Tragedy of Richard Duke of York (published 1595). These...

...1930 Child Harold Child, 'Stage History', in Wilson, pp. 161-8 conj. conjecture, conjectured by Cont. The First Part of the Contention Betwixt the two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster, London, 1594; MSR, 1985 Cooper Thomas Cooper, ed., Thesaurus Lingua Romana & Britannica,...

...thought for more than a century, revisions of two anonymous plays with very similar plots and dialogue, The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of York and Lancaster (1 594) and The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York (1595); quite the contrary,...