Henry VI Part 1

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• Exeter - Adult (36-50), Senior (>50), Male

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Exeter comments on England's political situation

Summary

After Henry VI becomes king, various quarrels between English nobles plague the kingdom, one between Gloucester and Winchester and the other between Richard Plantagenet and Somerset. In the first scene of Act III, King Henry VI urges Gloucester and WInchester to stop fighting and restores Richard Plantagenet his hereditary rights. The king leaves for France and after everybody has left Exeter, an English lord, comments on the scene. He argues that the truce between Gloucester and Winchester won't last long and that all these disagreements between the lords will destroy the kingdom. He thinks that an old prophesy will come true, that is Henry V will win everything and Henry VI will lose it all. He hopes that the king will die before that happens.

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