King Henry VIII (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) - Hardcover

William Shakespeare

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1903436249 ISBN 13: 9781903436240

Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary.

About the Author:

Gordon McMullen is a professor at King's College, London.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1903436249
• ISBN 13: 9781903436240
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Gordon McMullan