Part of: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (The Oxford Shakespeare) The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
- William Shakespeare (author)
- William James Craig (editor)
Shakespeare’s Henry VIII may be best known not for its plot or poetry, but because during one of its earliest performances a cannon, shot for special effects, caught the theater’s thatched roof on fire, and the Globe burned to the ground. The historical material is equally incendiary, as Shakespeare deals with Henry’s divorce and his creation of the English church.
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This edition comes from the 1916 Oxford University Press edition of all of Shakespeare’s plays and poems.
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Henry’s WivesFor understandable reasons, the political history of Henry VIII often takes second place to his marital history. The television show The Tudors is an unabashedly soapy take on Henry VIII’s six wives. The modern musical Six gives the story a feminist remix.
