Henry 6, Part 1 (Annotated)

Here is a brief plot summary of Henry VI Part 1: The play opens in the aftermath of the death of King Henry V. News reaches England of military setbacks in France, and the scene shifts to Orleans, where 'La Pucelle' (Joan of Arc) is encouraging the Dauphin to resist. She defeats an English army led by Talbot. The First Part of King Henry the Sixth is history play by William Shakespeare, believed written in approximately 1588–1590. It is the first in the cycle of four plays often referred to as "The First Tetralogy". William Shakespeare was an English Playwright, actor, English poet, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent. After some times when he was a very popular writer then he is called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”.