King Henry VIII : Third Series Paperback / softback
by William Shakespeare
Edited by Professor Gordon (King's College London, UK) McMullan
Part of the The Arden Shakespeare Third Series series
Paperback / softback
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 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
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:544 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:02/11/2000
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- ISBN:9781903436257
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:544 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:02/11/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9781903436257
