The second part of Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy escalates the political chaos of the first: the Duke of York manoeuvres toward the throne, the populist rebel Jack Cade launches his extraordinary uprising (‘The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers’), and the weak king finds himself increasingly unable to govern. The play is Shakespeare’s most sustained early portrait of political dysfunction.
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