Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
People might not be as familiar with this play today, but back in Shakespeare's day, the Henry VI plays were super popular (source).
Have you ever heard someone about someone who "grovels," is "jaded," or is "dead as a doornail"? Well, Shakespeare came up with all those terms and used them for the first time in this play (source).
Shakespeare didn't come up with this story on his own. He took a bunch of ideas from Edward Hall's and Raphael Holinshed's histories, John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, and William Baldwin's The Mirror for Magistrates, to name a few (source).