"King Henry VIII" (Arden Shakespeare.Third Series)

by WilliamShakespeare (Author), Gordon Mc Mullen (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2000

  $115.23

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  1981

  $13.43

  Extensive critical and historical commentaries accompany Shakespeare's tragedy of the life of the English king.

• New

  Paperback
  1990

  $14.82

  The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. Edited and introduced by John Margeson, King Henry VIII appears here for the first time in a New Cambridge Shakespeare edition. In his introduction Margeson explores the political and religious background to the play, its pageant-like structure and visual effects, and its varied ironies. He also discusses its stage history, from the famous occasion in 1613 when the Globe theatre burned down during a performance of King Henry VIII to important theatrical productions of the late twentieth century. A balanced account is provided of the authorship controversy that arose in the nineteenth century, when John Fletcher's name was first put forward as a likely collaborator.

• New

  Hardcover
  1990

  $88.89

  The first New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of King Henry VIII, edited by John Margeson.