A review by thefussyreader
Henry VI Part 1 by William Shakespeare

3.0

Not my favourite but still very interesting to see the beginnings of the War of Roses play out. Also really cool to see Joan of Arc doing her thing. I learn something new every time I read a Shakespeare.
Act 4 scenes 5, 6 & 7 are fantastic, nearly the whole thing is written in rhyme.

I'm not going to go on about it and be a bore, but instead here are some of my favourite lines.

"Ten thousand soldiers with me I will take,
Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake."

"And her I prophesy,-- this brawl to-day,
Grown to this faction, in the Temple-garden,
Shall send, between the red rose and white,
A thousand souls to death and deadly night."

"His fame lives in the world, his shame in you."

"See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms
Of the most bloody nurser of his harms!"

"But from their ashes shall be rear'd
A phoenix that shall make all France afeard."