num_pages: 272
description: Extensive critical and historical commentaries accompany Shakespeare's tragedy of the life of the English king
language: English
title: Henry VIII
titlecomplete: Henry VIII (The New Penguin Shakespeare)
characters: Patience (Lady in waiting to Katherine of Aragon), Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden, Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Elizabeth I of England, Anthony Denny, Henry VIII of England, Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, Stephen Gardiner, Thomas Wolsey, Gilbert Park, William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, John Longland, Bishop of Lincoln, Anne Boleyn, William Warham, Thomas Cranmer, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, Stephen Peacock, Lord Mayor of London, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, Catherine of Aragon, Eustace Chapuys, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, 2nd Earl of Surrey, Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, Nicholas Hopkins, John de la Court, Charles Knevet, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Henry Guildford, Thomas More, George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny, Griffith, attendant to Katherine of Aragon, Sir Henry Marney, Dr. William Butts, Old Lady (Attendant to Anne Boleyn), Lorenzo Campeggio, Thomas Lovell, Thomas Cromwell
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Drama, Plays, 17th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Theatre
ratings_count: 9038
publisher: Penguin Classics