num_pages: 150
description: Caridad Svich offers a new take on the history play, which tells the story of Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn.Shakespeare's Henry VIII is a story of a brazen race to power and the desire for an heir. Advised by Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII is caught between church and state as he meets Anne Boleyn and seeks to annul his marriage to Queen Katherine. This episodic and plot-driven play examines the machinations of royal power. Shakespeare's Henry VIII , in this new translation by Caridad Svich, is a swift-moving, complex tale of intrigue.This translation of Henry VIII was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present work from "The Bard" in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, this project reenvisions Shakespeare for the twenty-first century. These volumes make these works available for the first time in print--a new First Folio for a new era.
language: English
title: Henry VIII
titlecomplete: Henry VIII (Shakespeare, Pelican)
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: 9039
publisher: Penguin Classics