Short answers, pulled from the story.
On the 3rd of March 1592, Philip Henslowe recorded a performance of the play at the Rose Theatre in Southwark. The production achieved significant success with fifteen performances and box office receipts totaling £3.16s.8d.
Gary Taylor calculated that approximately 18.7% of the text contains Shakespeare's hand while the rest likely came from collaborators like Thomas Nashe or Christopher Marlowe. Oxford University Press credited Christopher Marlowe as co-author alongside Shakespeare in its New Oxford Shakespeare series.
Lord Talbot died after being thrust with a spear into his back by a base Walloon following over three hours of combat against twenty-three thousand French soldiers. His son John also died trying to save him before Sir John Fastolf deserted them during the engagement.
Richard Plantagenet introduced dumb significants when he challenged Somerset to choose sides silently using red or white roses to declare allegiance. Richard chose the white rose while Somerset took the red rose creating a visual symbol replacing language itself for political division.
The play presents everything Catholic as bad while portraying Protestant England as good to serve patriotic needs during a time of fear about invasion. Memories of the Spanish Armada defeat in 1588 still haunted public consciousness and concerns over Mary Queen of Scots execution combined with worries about Ireland.