num_pages: 126
description: (Applause Books). 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 Eight: Applause First Folio Editions
titlecomplete: The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight: Applause First Folio Editions (Applause Shakespeare Library Folio Texts)
characters: Griffith, attendant to Katherine of Aragon, John de la Court, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, John Longland, Bishop of Lincoln, Catherine of Aragon, Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, William Warham, Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden, Thomas Wolsey, William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, Henry VIII of England, Eustace Chapuys, Old Lady (Attendant to Anne Boleyn), Anthony Denny, George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny, Sir Henry Marney, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, Patience (Lady in waiting to Katherine of Aragon), Elizabeth I of England, Thomas Cranmer, Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, Nicholas Hopkins, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, Thomas Lovell, Dr. William Butts, Anne Boleyn, Gilbert Park, Stephen Peacock, Lord Mayor of London, Lorenzo Campeggio, Charles Knevet, Thomas More, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, 2nd Earl of Surrey, Stephen Gardiner, Henry Guildford
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Historical, Plays, Historical Fiction, Poetry, Literature, 17th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 9038
publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books