Henry VI Part 1 Trivia

Henry VI meets Downton Abbey. Looks like Hugh Bonneville plays Gloucester in the BBC The Hollow Crown adaptation.
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Theater on the Battlefield: The Globe Shakespeare Theater actually staged the Henry VI plays on one of the bloodiest battlefields of the Wars of the Roses.
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Shakespeare got his own coat of arms, a heraldry symbol like the roses that everyone's fighting over in Henry VI, Part 1. No roses on his, though; it features a spear, instead.
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