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The Complete Works of Shakespeare With Life, Compendium, and Concordance
The Complete Works of Shakespeare With Life Compendium and Concordance Author:William Shakespeare Title: The Complete Works of Shakespeare With Life, Compendium, and Concordance ...: Venus and Adonis; Rape of Lucrece; Sonnets; a Lover's Complaint; Passionate Pilgrim; Compendium of Plays; Concordance General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1891 Original Publisher: Gebbie Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint... more » of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing 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: COMPENDIUM OF THE PLAY. The nuptials of King Henry VI. with Margaret of Anjou are searcely celebrated, in the 24th year of the king, when the new queen resolves to exercise unlimited control over the councils of her imbecile husband, and with the assistance of a number of powerful nobles, to remove the duke of Gloster from his post of protector. Their purpose is at length effected, and the virtuous duke confined on a charge of high treason. His accusers, perceiving the evidence of his guilt insufficient to obtain the least credit, have recourse to assassination. The populace, driven to desperation at the murder of their patron, tumultuously insist on the immediate banishment of Suffolk, his avowed enemy, who, in his passage to France, is captured by pirates and beheaded. In the meantime the government of Ireland is intrusted to the duke of York, who previous to his departure induces a needy dependent, named Cade, to commence an insurrection in Kent, laying claim to the crown as a descendant of Edmund Mortimer, in order that he may thereby be enabled to judge of the probability of his own success. Cade and his party are at length dispersed by the king's forces, and the duke of York soon after arrives in England to support his pretensions to the throne by force of arms. The hostile parties come to a general engagement near Saint Albans, where the Lancastrians sustain a total def...« less