King Henry VIII (all is true) / William Shakespeare ; edited by Gordon McMullan.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Thomson Learning, c2000.Description: xxiii, 506 p.: ill. 20 cmISBN:- 1903436249
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PR 2815.C123 1995 The second part of King Henry VI. | PR 2816 .C123 1996 The third part of King Henry VI. / | PR 2817.F68 1997 King Henry VIII. / | PR 2817 .M229 2000 King Henry VIII (all is true) / | PR 2819.F68 1997 King Lear. / | PR 2820 .Ur2 1997 King Richard II. / | PR 2821.H184 1997 King Richard III. / |
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 new 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 powerful claim for the rehabilitation of Henry VIII, providing the fullest performance history of any edition to date 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.
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