First performance of a Shakespeare play

On 3 March 1592, a play called "harej the vi" was performed at the Rose Playhouse in Southwark, London, UK. That same year, the playwright Robert Greene quoted a line from one of Shakespeare's three plays about the reign of Henry VI in a pamphlet and another writer, Thomas Nashe, wrote about a performance he had seen about the exploits of the English soldier John Talbot, who is one of the main characters of the first part of Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy. Clearly Shakespeare was making an impression on his fellow writers with his powerful dramatisation of the Wars of the Roses. Although we cannot know for certain which of Shakespeare's plays was first performed, it is certainly the case that the Henry VI plays were the first to be noticed and recorded.

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