There were a number of things that needed to be done. I needed new friends. Perhaps I even needed a girlfriend. Certainly I needed a social life. I needed to move out of home. And I needed a means of making the money to support all this that was at least a little bit interesting.
    This last point exercised my mind most. All of the things that I fancied I wanted to do required qualifications in subjects that I was conspicuously bad at, especially sciences and mathematics. This contradiction pained me. I read innumerable books on astronomy and space travel and scientific discoveries and was fascinated by it all and wanted to do that. How then could it be possible that I got such poor results in maths and sciences.

 Down, down to hell: and say I sent thee thither:
    The Third Part of King Henry VI, like the first two parts, was plainly a collaboration in which Shakespeare probably only played a small part. It suffers from a feeble main character and a dreary bunch of opponents. The weak King Henry 6, having lost the French territories so boldly won by his father and generally ruined everything, is plotted against by everyone, but unfortunately it takes the whole length of the play to see them all off except the last one. Hardly anything about it is memorable.
Shakespeare Scoreboard:
Original plays: 2. (MacBeth) (Henry IV Part One)
Plays ripped off from contemporaries:   5. (Merchant from Marlowe’s Jew of Malta) (Hamlet from Kyd and Aeschylus)(Antony and Cleopatra--everywhere) (Julius Caesar—same place) (Romeo and Juliet from Brooke’s Romeo and Guilietta)
Contributed part only: 3 (Henry VI Part One) (Henry VI Part Two) (Henry VI Part Three)