description: The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally reedited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrated introduction, including an in-depth survey of critical and performance approaches to the play; and selected bibliography.
language: English
title: King Henry VIII
titlecomplete: King Henry VIII (Arden Shakespeare: Second Series)
characters: William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, Henry VIII of England, Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, Patience (Lady in waiting to Katherine of Aragon), Thomas Wolsey, Sir Henry Marney, Anthony Denny, Thomas More, John Longland, Bishop of Lincoln, Charles Knevet, Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Eustace Chapuys, Lorenzo Campeggio, John de la Court, William Warham, Old Lady (Attendant to Anne Boleyn), Thomas Cranmer, Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, Griffith, attendant to Katherine of Aragon, George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny, Dr. William Butts, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, Gilbert Park, Nicholas Hopkins, Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden, Stephen Peacock, Lord Mayor of London, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, 2nd Earl of Surrey, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Stephen Gardiner, Thomas Lovell, Thomas Cromwell, Elizabeth I of England, Henry Guildford
genres: Drama, Theatre, 17th Century, Historical, Literature, Plays, Poetry, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 9040
publisher: Arden Shakespeare