"These audio recordings are a companion to The Complete Pelican Shakespeare published by Penguin Putnam Inc. The productions adhere to the edition edited by Alfred Harbage that was available at the time they were recorded. Subsequently, a new edition of The Complete Pelican Shakespeare, editied by Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, was published in late 2002." - insert.

Insert contains a brief summary of each scene.

Director, Clive Brill ; composer, Dominique Le Gendre ; producers, Bill Shepherd and Tom Treadwell.

David Tennant (King Henry VI), Kelly Hunter (Queen Margaret), John Bowe (Earl of Warwick), Clive Merrison (Duke of York), David Troughton (Richard Plantagenet), Stephen Boxer (Edward Plantagenet), John McAndrew (George Plantagenet), Sonia Ritter (Lady Grey), Jonathan Tafler (King Louis of France), Nigel Cooke (Duke of Exeter), Michael N. Harbour (Duke of Somerset), Mark Lambert (Earl of Westmoreland), Anthony Jackson (Earl of Northumberland), Jamie Glover (Lord Clifford), Christian Rodska (Lord Hastings), Gavin Muir (Lord Rivers), Raymond Bowers (Marquess of Montague), Nicholas Murchie (Earl of Oxford), Jay Barrimore (Earl of Rutland).

The Yorkists have been temporarily victorious and the Duke of York has assumed the throne, but the Lancastrians, led by Queen Margaret, counter-attack. As the fortunes of war shift, both the innocent and the guilty are swept up in the maelstrom. And increasingly dominant amid the chaos is the sinister Þgure of the crook-backed Richard, Duke of Gloucester.