KING HENRY THE SIXTH
DUKE OF GLOSTER – uncle to the KING, and protector
DUKE OF BEDFORD – uncle to the KING, and Regent of France
THOMAS BEAUFORT – Duke of Exeter, great-uncle to the KING
HENRY BEAUFORT – great-uncle to the KING, Bishop of Winchester, and afterwards cardinal
JOHN BEAUFORT – Earl of Somerset, afterwards duke
RICHARD PLANTAGENET – eldest son of RICHARD, late Earl of Cambridge, afterwards Duke of York
DUKE OF WARWICK, EARL OF SALISBURY, EARL OF SUFFOLK
LORD TALBOT – afterwards Earl of Shrewsbury
JOHN TALBOT – his son
EDMUND MORTIMER – Earl of March
MORTIMER’S keepers
A lawyer
SIR JOHN FASTOLFE, SIR WILLIAM LUCY, SIR WILLIAM GLANDSDALE, SIR THOMAS GARGRAVE
Mayor of London
WOODVILLE – lieutenant of the Tower
VERNON – of the White-rose or York faction
BASSET – of the Red-rose or Lancaster faction
CHARLES – dauphin, and afterwards, King of France
REIGNIER – Duke of Anjou, and titular King of Naples
DUKE OF BURGUNDY, DUKE OF ALENCON
BASTARD OF ORLEANS
Governor of Paris
Master-gunner of Orleans and his son
General of the French forces in Bordeaux
A French sergeant
A porter
An old shepherd – father to JOAN LA PUCELLE
MARGARET – daughter to REIGNIER, afterwards married to KING HENRY
COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE
JOAN LA PUCELLE – commonly called JOAN OF ARC
Lords, warders of the Tower, heralds, officers, soldiers, messengers, several attendants – both on the English and the French
Fiends – appearing to LA PUCELLE
PLAY
Partly in England; partly in France.
ACT I
Scene i: Westminster Abbey.
Scene ii: France. Before Orleans.
Scene iii: London. Before the gates of the Tower.
Scene iv: France. Before Orleans.
Scene v: The same. Before one of the gates.
ACT II
Scene i: Before Orleans.
Scene ii: Orleans. Within the town.
Scene iii: Auvergne. Court of the castle.
Scene iv: London. The Temple Garden.
Scene v: The same. A room in the Tower.
ACT III
Scene i: London. The Parliament House.
Scene ii: France. Before Rouen.
Scene iii: The plains before Rouen.
Scene iv: Paris. A room in the palace.
ACT IV”
Scene i: Paris. A room of state.
Scene ii: France. Before Bourdeaux.
Scene iii: Plains in Gascony.
Scene iv: Other plains of Gascony.
Scene v: The English camp near Bourdeaux.
Scene vi: A field of battle.
Scene vii: Another part of the same.
ACT V
Scene i: London. A room in the palace.
Scene ii: France. Plains in Anjou.
Scene iii: The same. Before Angiers.
Scene iv: Camp of the Duke of York in Anjou.
Scene v: London. A room in the palace.
Act III: Scene i
DUKE OF EXETER: Ay, we may march in England or in France,
Not seeing what is likely to ensue.
This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
Burns under feigned ashes of forg’d love,
And will at last break out into a flame:
As fester’d members rot by degree,
Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
So will this base and and envious discord breed.
And now I fear that fatal prophecy
Which in the time of Henry named the Fifth
Was in the mouth of every sucking babe,–
That Henry born at Monmouth should win all,
And Henry born at Windsor should lose all:
Which is so plain that Exeter doth wish
His days may finish ere that hapless time.
