Henry VI Part 2

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March 12, 1594

Stationers’ Register entry for Henry VI Part 2

Henry VI Part 2 was entered into Stationer's Liber B on March 12, 1594 as "the firste parte of the Contention of the twoo famous houses of York and Lancaster with the deathe of the good Duke Humfrey and the banishement and Deathe of the Duke of Suffolk and the tragicall ende of

1594

Henry VI Part 2, first edition

The first edition of Henry VI Part 2 was printed anonymously as The First Part of the Contention.

1600

Henry VI Part 2, second edition

The second edition of Shakespeare’s Henry VI Part 2 was printed as The First Part of the Contention Betwixt the Two Famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster in 1600, six years after the first edition.

April 19, 1602

Stationers' Register entry for the transfer of Henry VI Parts 1 and 2, and Titus Andronicus

Henry VI Part 1 and Part 2 and Titus Andronicus were entered into Liber C of the Stationers' Company on April 19, 1602.

1619

Henry VI Parts 2 and 3, third editions

In 1619, William Jaggard and Thomas Pavier issued a joint reprinting of the anonymous plays The First Part of the Contention (1594) and The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York (1595), titled The Whole Contention Between the Tw