Category: midpoint

Using Professor Rodes’ midpoint theory, let’s take a look at The Third Part of Henry the Sixth.

There are 2904 lines in the play, which puts the midpoint at line 1452, which is at Act Three, Scene Two, line 66, during Edward’s “wooing” of Lady Grey.

Edward, in exchange for reinstating the Grey titles and lands, has won Elizabeth Woodville’s “love (for) a king” (III.ii.53).  Only that is NOT the kind of love this king wants, and as he talks his way around the conversation to the point where she begins to realize that he “mean(s) not as (she) though (he) did” (III.ii.65), Edward says lasciviously, “But now you partly may perceive my mind” (III.ii.66).

This single-line speech is the midpoint of the play as a whole.  So why is it important?
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Using Professor Rodes’ midpoint theory, let’s take a look at The Second Part of Henry the Sixth.
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Using Professor Rodes’ midpoint theory, let’s take a look at The First Part of Henry the Sixth.

There are 2677 lines in the play, which puts the midpoint at line 1339, which is at Act Three, Scene Five, line 12.
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