num_pages: 132
description: If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances.
language: English
title: The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
titlecomplete: The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth (Folger Library General Reader's 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: Washington Square Press