Talk:Henriad

Untitled

Is there a collective name for the first tetralogy and, if so, is it worth creating a page on it --TimothyJacobson (talk) 01:46, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Some scholars actually include all eight plays when referring to the Henriad. This is because while they were written in two series of four plays, they actually refer to one larger event, the War of the Roses. They refer to quite a bit of the civil wars that were taking place in England during this time, and the fight for power between the Lancasters and the Yorks. As for creating a page on the first tetralogy, it might be worth creating since there is a page for the second, albeit quite short. Perhaps a better alternative would be to do one large page on both series as a whole, with sections breaking down each tetralogy individually. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.159.60.127 (talk) 17:10, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Henriad. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20131106053843/https://ryanasmussenshakescene.wordpress.com/tag/henriad/ to https://ryanasmussenshakescene.wordpress.com/tag/henriad/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 03:57, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Restoring a list of four plays in the third paragraph

I think it is necessary to keep that list of the four plays. It’s a given that this article is dealing with a topic that’s been complicated by it’s history of “name variation” — the various uses of the terms “tetralogy” and “Henriad”, and of course, all that history is good content and needs to be in the article.

One reason it’s important to keep the list: The sentence refers back to that complicated history, and that list helpfully makes clear what the reference is — without burdening the reader with the need to go back in order to sort things out, or to double-check to make sure they haven’t missed something. Including that list of plays in parentheses, and not using the full titles (as is often done by sources) helps make things immediately clear. - Jonkintorval (talk) 17:32, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

I whole-heartedly disagree. The passage I removed was completely superfluous, as it only required the reader to go back up one paragraph to know what the word "tetralogy" was referring to, which I reckon isn't too demanding. Anyway, another user made the same deletion I had previously made, and this one seems to have stuck. That settles it then. --Johnn Francis (talk) 15:48, 19 February 2026 (UTC)