King Henry VIII (All is True)
London : Arden Shakespeare/Cengage Learning, [2000]
Format: Book
Description: xxiii, 506 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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.`This is a staggeringly brilliant, captivating edition that will undoubtedly occasion a huge surge of critical interest in this neglected play. For those of use who have never taken Henry VIII very seriously ' perhaps dismissing it as a late collaborative play of no consequence or as conservative propaganda ' McMullan's introduction is genuinely revelatory.'Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada at Reno, Shakespeare Survey
Series: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Works. 1995.
Contents:
Introduction -- Authenticities: performance history -- Date and early performances -- Performances 1660-1916 -- Performances 1916-2000 -- All is true: cultural history -- Truth and topicality -- Royal reputations -- The conscience of the King -- Truth and temperance -- Truth and textuality -- Truth and tragicomedy -- The character of the Queen -- Hidden reformations -- Truth and topicality: coda -- Originals: textual history -- Text and modernization -- Resources -- Collaboration -- KING HENRY VIII (ALL IS TRUE) -- Appendices -- 1. Contextual chronology for the events of Henry VIII -- Comparative chronology (1603-13) for plays in the Fletcher and Shakespeare canons -- Attribution and composition -- The Maid's tragedy -- Uncollected sources / analogues -- Music -- Doubling chart.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Henry VIII.
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 -- Drama.
Henry <VIII, King of England> - Drama.
Shakespeare, William <1564-1616>.
Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Drama.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Henry VIII.
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 -- Drama.
Henry <VIII, King of England> - Drama.
Shakespeare, William <1564-1616>.
Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Drama.
ISBN:
1903436257
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Drama Sha | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
LITERATURE Drama Sha | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
LITERATURE Drama Sha | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 468-493) and index.
Also issued online.
Also issued online.