Henriad
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- The second tetralogy
- Eight-play Henriad
- Three-play Henriad
- Authorship
- Literary background
- Criticism
- An earlier use
- Voltaire’s ''Henriade''
- Broadcast productions
- References
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In Shakespearean scholarship, the Henriad refers to a group of William Shakespeare's history plays depicting the rise of the English kings. It is sometimes used to refer to a group of four plays (a tetralogy), but some sources and scholars use the term to refer to eight plays. In the 19th century, Algernon Charles Swinburne used the term to refer to three plays, but that use is not current.
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