King Henry VIII: Third Series
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
King Henry VIII: Third Series
By (Author) William Shakespeare
Edited by Professor Gordon McMullan
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The Arden Shakespeare
17th March 2009
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800
822.33
Physical Properties
Paperback
544
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
578g
Description
"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 Bio
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.
