CAS13 XX-24 Shakespeare - Henry VI-2.pdf - henry vi (read by full cast) - gorylicolandia

Henry VI, Part Two

Cast

King Henry VI ....................David Tennant

Queen Margaret..................Kelly Hunter

Duke of Gloucester .............Norman Rodway

Earl of Warwick..................John Bowe

Duke of York.......................Clive Merrison

Duke of Suffolk...................Nigel Cooke

Duchess of Gloucester ........Isla Blair

Richard Plantagenet ...........David Troughton

Edward Plantagenet ...........Stephen Boxer

Jack Cade............................Kenneth Cranham

Lord Clifford .......................Peter Marinker

Lord Say ..............................Mark Lambert

Bishop of Winchester .........Steve Hodson

Duke of Somerset................Michael N. Harbour

Duke of Buckingham .........Christian Rodska

Earl of Salisbury.................Patrick O’Connell

Stafford ...............................Raymond Bowers

Young Clifford ....................Jamie Glover

John Hume .........................David Cardy

Margery Jourdain...............Jenny Howe

Other parts played by: Alex Boyd-Williams, Alan Cox, Paul Goodwin,

Alex Lowe and Colin Salmon

Play description

ACT I

Scene 1. Old divisions besetting England resurface when the powerful nobles learn that Suffolk, who

has returned from France with King Henry’s bride Margaret, has ceded Anjou and Maine to her father.

Henry, delighted, makes Suffolk a Duke; Gloucester, Warwick and Salisbury are, however, devastated

at what they see as Suffolk’s treachery. Gloucester leaves in anger, having been criticized by

Winchester. Buckingham is quick to side with Winchester, but Somerset councils caution about “the

haughty cardinal.” Salisbury and Warwick remain loyal to Gloucester, but York, who wants the crown

for

himself, will support him only for as long as it serves his purposes.

Scene 2. Despite Gloucester’s admonitions, his wife Eleanor will not relinquish her ambition for the

crown. She arranges with Hume for conjurors to reveal the future to her. Hume, however, has been

employed by Suffolk and the Cardinal “to undermine” her.

Scene 3. Suffolk reassures Margaret that he has planned the downfall of their enemies and “one by

one we’ll weed them all at last./And you yourself shall steer the happy helm.” Henry cannot decide

who should be his regent in France. The Queen and her allies accuse Gloucester of incompetence and

extravagance. He leaves in anger and Margaret strikes Eleanor, claiming to have mistaken her for a

serving woman.

Scene 4. Spirits reveal to Eleanor that Henry will be deposed by a duke, that Suffolk will die by water

and that Somerset should avoid castles. York and Buckingham arrest Eleanor for treason.

ACT II

Scene 1. To Henry’s distress the Cardinal and Gloucester are wrangling again. A blind man, said to

have been miraculously cured, is brought to court and revealed as a fraud. Gloucester rejects Eleanor

for dishonoring his name.

Scene 2. Warwick and Salisbury hail York as “England’s king.”

Scene 3. Eleanor is banished, and the conjurors are sentenced to death. Henry ends Gloucester’s time

of office as Protector, saluting him affectionately.

Scene 4. As Eleanor performs her public penance, she angrily reproaches Gloucester for taking her

shame so meekly. She warns him against his enemies, but he is adamant that being “loyal, true, and

crimeless” he cannot be harmed.

ACT III

Scene 1. Despite a vicious attack on Gloucester by Margaret and others, Henry remains convinced of

his virtue. Having heard that all Henry’s French territories are lost, Suffolk arrests Gloucester,

claiming that he is responsible for the loss. Gloucester leaves in dignified despair, insisting on his

innocence: “good King Henry, thy decay I fear.” Henry is loyal to him but powerless and goes from

the parliament distraught. Margaret derides Henry’s “foolish pity” and all decide that Gloucester must

die. The Cardinal offers to provide the executioner. York agrees to go to Ireland to suppress an

uprising. Privately delighted to have the army he lacked, he describes himself as “the starved

snake,/Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your hearts.” He plans to have a Kentishman called

Cade foment an insurrection thus revealing public approval for the Yorkist claim.

Scene 2. Two murderers report to Suffolk that they have killed Gloucester. Hearing of the death,

Henry faints and recoils from Suffolk. Warwick reports that the commons are hot for revenge,

believing the duke to have been murdered by Suffolk and the Cardinal. Henry banishes Suffolk,

despite Margaret’s opposition. As Margaret and Suffolk part in anguish, she assures him that she will

achieve his repeal or follow him into exile.

Scene 3. Henry, Warwick and Salisbury attend the Cardinal’s deathbed, as he raves guiltily about

Gloucester.

ACT IV

Scene 1. Suffolk is murdered by pirates.

Scene 2. Cade, claiming to be Richard II’s heir, starts his rebellion in Blackheath. He promises cheap

food and good ale for all. A clerk is hanged for literacy and numeracy. Despite attempts to stop them,

the rebels sweep on, incited by Cade to take Lord Say’s head for treason.

Scene 3. The Stafford brothers are killed and Cade rewards the butcher for his bloodthirsty exploits.

Scene 4. Margaret mourns Suffolk’s death, and news comes that Cade has London Bridge. Henry

leaves for Warwickshire.

Scene 5. The Lord Mayor sends to the Tower for help in defending the City.

Scene 6. A soldier is murdered for failing to address Cade as Lord Mortimer.

Scene 7. Despite Say’s eloquent appeal for mercy, Cade has him beheaded.

Scene 8. When Clifford and Buckingham arrive with offer of pardons from the King, the mob is easily

swayed and Cade flees.

Scene 9. Henry learns of Cade’s defeat and then of York’s return from Ireland; he comes with a

powerful army intending to remove Somerset for treachery. Henry likens his state to a ship “that,

having ’scaped a tempest,/Is straitway calmed, and boarded with a pirate.” He sends Somerset to the

Tower for his protection.

Scene 10. Cade escapes to Kent and, desperate for food, enters the garden of Alexander Iden. They

fight and Cade dies.

ACT V

Scene 1. York arrives to “pluck the crown from feeble Henry’s head”. He assures Buckingham that his

army is for the removal of Somerset and promptly disbands it, having learnt that he is already in the

Tower. Upon seeing Margaret with Somerset, however, York denounces Henry as unfit for power and,

supported by Warwick and Salisbury, claims the crown.

Scene 2. The conflict flares up into battle at St. Albans. Warwick kills Clifford, whose son vows

revenge. Somerset is killed by York’s son Richard, near the Castle alehouse. The King and Queen flee

to London.

Scene 3. Warwick, York and Salisbury are jubilant at their victory.

Track list

Disc 1

Track 1

Act I Scene i

Disk 2

Track 1

Act III Scene i

Disk 3

Track 1 Act IV Scene iii

Track 2 Act IV Scene iv

Track 3 Act IV Scene v

Track 4 Act IV Scene vi

Track 5 Act IV Scene vii

Track 6 Act IV Scene viii

Track 7 Act IV Scene ix

Track 8 Act IV Scene x

Track 9 Act V Scene i

Track 10 Act V Scene ii

Track 11 Act V Scene iii

Track 2

Act I Scene ii

Track 2

Act III Scene ii

Track 3

Act I Scene iii

Track 3

Act III Scene iii

Track 4

Act I Scene iv

Track 4

Act IV Scene i

Track 5

Act II Scene i

Track 5

Act IV Scene ii

Track 6

Act II Scene ii

Track 7

Act II Scene iii

Track 8

Act II Scene iv

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