num_pages: 206
description: The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations.Edited and introduced by John Margeson, King Henry VIII appears here for the first time in a New Cambridge Shakespeare edition. In his introduction Margeson explores the political and religious background to the play, its pageant-like structure and visual effects, and its varied ironies. He also discusses its stage history, from the famous occasion in 1613 when the Globe theatre burned down during a performance of King Henry VIII to important theatrical productions of the late twentieth century. A balanced account is provided of the authorship controversy that arose in the nineteenth century, when John Fletcher's name was first put forward as a likely collaborator.
language: English
title: King Henry VIII
titlecomplete: King Henry VIII
characters: Elizabeth I of England, William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, Thomas Lovell, Anthony Denny, George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny, Thomas Cranmer, Thomas Wolsey, Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Thomas Cromwell, Catherine of Aragon, Dr. William Butts, Thomas More, Lorenzo Campeggio, Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, William Warham, Gilbert Park, Eustace Chapuys, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, 2nd Earl of Surrey, Sir Henry Marney, Patience (Lady in waiting to Katherine of Aragon), Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden, John de la Court, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Henry Guildford, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, Griffith, attendant to Katherine of Aragon, John Longland, Bishop of Lincoln, Nicholas Hopkins, Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, Anne Boleyn, Old Lady (Attendant to Anne Boleyn), Stephen Gardiner, Charles Knevet, Henry VIII of England, Stephen Peacock, Lord Mayor of London
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Historical, Poetry, Drama, 17th Century, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 9038
publisher: Cambridge University Press