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The Oxford Shakespeare: King Henry VIII: or All is True (Hardcover)

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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Clarendon Press; New Ed edition (2 Dec 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0198130015
ISBN-13: 978-0198130017
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm

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Believed to be Shakespeare's very last play, Henry VIII is probably best remembered as the play which, when performed in June 1613, led to the Globe Theatre burning down due to the fireworks and cannon fire listed in the stage directions. However, otherwise the play has puzzled critics, who can see little more in it than a nostalgic account of Henry's reign, and the prophetic birth and christening of Elizabeth, Shakespeare's Queen, which takes place at the end of the play.

Henry VIII deals with the intrigue which surrounds Henry's court, and in particular the controversial figure of Cardinal Wolsey, and Henry's separation from his wife Katherine, and infatuation with Anne Bullen. However, there is little sense of the psychological complexity created by Shakespeare in earlier history plays like Henry V. Henry VIII himself is a grand but distant figure, and the virulent anti-Catholicism lacks complexity. Within an increasingly troubled political period, the final hopeful invocation of "Peace, plenty, love, truth" seems rather flat, as does the play as a whole. This has led many critics to argue that Shakespeare was just one of many collaborators in the writing of the play. --Jerry Brotton --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars CONTEMPORARY REVIEW OF A CLASSIC-MAKES BENHUR APPEAR AN EPIC, 26 Dec 2000

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This review is from: "King Henry VIII": Third Series (Arden Shakespeare.Third Series) (Paperback)

Henry the eighth may sound like just another Shakespeare play to you but the advantage of this edition lies in the contemporary, elegant and witty commentary that proceeds it. Indeed the Editor has managed to link many of the happenings written about by the fine Bard to events in his own life. As such it provides a great insight into how rejection at a provincial disco at the age of 17 is in fact an essential metaphor for the experience of Henry's wives.

Indeed the foreward of the Editor is so long and detailed that it could be argued that William's words should have been let go to tell us more about the latest girlfriend!

Ultimately though the words of Shakepeare win through and there can no longer be any doubt that he did write this and his sonnets.

Its setting in the contemporary context of a post-modern intertextual methodology makes this a classic. Buy it!

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