William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English playwright and poet whose works form a central part of the English literary canon. His plays, written primarily between the late 1580s and early seventeenth century, encompass tragedy, comedy, and history, and have been performed continuously for more than four centuries.The Henry VI plays are among his earliest works and form part of a sequence of English history dramas that trace the political struggles of the late medieval period. King Henry VI, Part III presents the concluding phase of this sequence, leading directly into the events dramatized in Richard III.
