The Third Part of Henry the Sixt Author:William Shakespeare General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1912 Original Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Company Subjects: Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing... more » text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LITERARY ILLUSTRATIONS Act I Scene 1.5. / ivonder hoiv: The last words of'2 Henry VI.,' 'Sound Dmmme and Trumpets, and to London all,' introduce the Alarum and entrance of the victors of ' Saint Albons battell' beginning this Play. Johnson justly noticed this immediate continuance of the action and that no ' two scenes of any play ' are ' more closely connected than the first scene of this with the last of the former.' But in so doing, the Dramatist bridged over the five years historically occurring between the Yorkist victory of St. Albans, May 23, 1455, and the Parliament of 1460, when the agreement described in this scene was made between King Henry and the Duke of Yorke. The Quarto stage direction adds a picturesque item of stage costume to the entrance: ' with white Roses in their hats.' Later, on the entrance of the other faction it adds ' with Red Roses.' 14. by .. common SouLiiors slaine: The inconsistency of this account, so far as it relates to Clifford, with that given of his death in ' 2 Henry VI,' V. ii. 3034, has, of course, been noticed. It is commonly supposed to be an inadvertent error. Yet if the most casual reader cannot but see the discrepancy, it is scarcely to be supposed that the Dramatist was unaware of it. Even if he merely rehandled the work of others, as has been supposed, in dramatic action made so continuous as the closing scenes of ' 2 Henry VI' with the present opening, the different account could not be ignored. It must...« less