Scenes
(28 total)

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Act I

• Scene 1. London. The Parliament-house.
• Scene 2. Sandal Castle.
• Scene 3. Field of battle betwixt Sandal Castle and Wakefield.
• Scene 4. Another part of the field.

Act II

• Scene 1. A plain near Mortimer’s Cross in Herefordshire.
• Scene 2. Before York.
• Scene 3. A field of battle between Towton and Saxton, in
• Scene 4. Another part of the field.
• Scene 5. Another part of the field.
• Scene 6. Another part of the field.

Act III

• Scene 1. A forest in the north of England.
• Scene 2. London. The palace.
• Scene 3. France. KING LEWIS XI’s palace.

Act IV

• Scene 1. London. The palace.
• Scene 2. A plain in Warwickshire.
• Scene 3. Edward’s camp, near Warwick.
• Scene 4. London. The palace.
• Scene 5. A park near Middleham Castle In Yorkshire.
• Scene 6. London. The Tower.
• Scene 7. Before York.
• Scene 8. London. The palace.

Act V

• Scene 1. Coventry.
• Scene 2. A field of battle near Barnet.
• Scene 3. Another part of the field.
• Scene 4. Plains near Tewksbury.
• Scene 5. Another part of the field.
• Scene 6. London. The Tower.
• Scene 7. London. The palace.

Characters
(50 total)

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• Bona, sister to the French Queen
• Duke of Exeter, uncle to Henry IV, great-uncle to Henry V
• Duke of Norfolk
• Duke/Earl of Somerset, John Beaufort
• Earl of Northumberland
• Earl of Pembroke
• Earl of Warwick
• Earl of Westmoreland
• Earl of Westmoreland
• Earl Oxford
• Edmond, Earl of Rutland
• Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March
• Father, who has killed his son
• First Keeper
• First Messenger
• First Watchman
• George Plantagenet (Duke of Clarence)
• Henry VI
• Henry, Earl of Richmond, a youth
• Huntsman
• King Edward IV (Plantagenet)
• King Lewis XI, king of France
• Lieutenant, of the Tower
• Lord (Earl) Rivers, brother to Lady Gray (Queen Elizabeth)
• Lord Clifford
• Lord Hastings
• Lord Stafford
• Marquess of Montague
• Mayor of York
• Messenger
• Nobleman
• Post
• Prince Edward
• Queen Elizabeth, starts as Lady Grey, marries Edward IV
• Queen Margaret, daughter to Reignier, afterwards married to King Henry VI
• Richard III (Duke of Gloucester), son of Richard Plantagenet, duke of York; was duke of Gloucester before enthronement
• Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester), becomes duke of York in Henry VI, Part
• Second Keeper
• Second Messenger
• Second Watchman
• Sir Hugh Mortimer, uncle to the Duke of York
• Sir John Montgomery
• Sir John Mortimer, uncle to the Duke of York
• Sir John Somerville
• Sir William Stanley, called also Earl of Derby
• Soldier
• Son, who has killed his father
• Third Watchman
• Tutor of Rutland