King Henry VIII

Third Series

By:

William Shakespeare

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

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"King Henry VIII" has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a fresh perspective on this ironic, multi-layered, collaborative play, revealing it as a complex meditation on the progress of Reformation which sees English life since Henry VIII's day as a series of bewildering changes in national and personal allegiance and represents "history" as the product of varied and contradictory testimony. McMullan makes a claim for the rehabilitation of "King Henry VIII", providing a full performance history and reading the work not as a marginal "late" Shakespeare play but as a play which is paradigmatic of the achievement of Renaissance drama as a whole.

Author Biography:

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time. Gordon McMullan is a professor of English at King's College London, UK.

Release date Australia

November 2nd, 2000

Author

William Shakespeare

Audiences

A / AS level
Undergraduate

Contributor

Edited by Gordon McMullan

Pages

544

Series

The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

Dimensions

129x198x30

ISBN-13

9781903436257

Product ID

2347203

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