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The Wars of the Roses was a 1963 theatrical adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses.
Sep 12, 2015 · The Wars of the Roses is a conflation of four Shakespeare plays into a trilogy. The meticulous editing and reorganisation of the original material was the work of the great John Barton,...
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The name "Wars of the Roses,"references the symbols of the two related but competing families: the Lancasters, symbolized by a red rose, and the Yorks, symbolized by a white rose. Shakespeare’s eight main history plays about this period— Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; Henry V ; as well as Henry VI, Part 1; Henry VI, Part 2 ...
The name "Wars of the Roses" references the symbols of the two related but competing families: the Lancasters, symbolized by a red rose, and the Yorks, symbolized by a white rose. Shakespeare’s eight main history plays about this period— Richard II ; Henry IV, Part 1 ; Henry IV, Part 2 ; Henry V ; Henry VI, Part 1 ; Henry VI, Part 2 ; Henry ...
The Wars of the Roses. This series of plays (comprising the two tetralogies of English history plays) was unique in presenting them as a coherent whole, aided by heavy editing and rewriting by Peter Hall and John Barton at the RSC, to celebrate the tercentenary Shakespeare's birth.
Henry VI, Part 1 is the first in a sequence of four history plays (the others being Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 3, and Richard III) known collectively as the “first tetralogy,” treating the Wars of the Roses between the houses of Lancaster and York.
- David Bevington
The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in following centuries as the Civil Wars, were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne from 1455 to 1487. The wars were fought between supporters of the House of Lancaster and House of York , two rival cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet .
