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Shakespeare’s Prince : The Interpretation of the Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth, Hardback Book

Shakespeare’s Prince : The Interpretation of the Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth Hardback

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The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth is Shakespeare’s most thoughtful history play—it was about this play that Schlegel made his famous comment that “Shakespeare was as profound a historian as a poet.” Yet, this last play, Shakespeare’s lone Tudor history, was popular at its first playing and has proven a crowd pleaser whenever it has been performed.

Ever seductive in its trappings of power and emphatic pomp and pageantry, it delineates in a political way the characters of England’s most surpassing statesman and her finest queen, as well as of the king thought most infamous of all by celebrated later English writers like Hazlitt and Dickens.

The dramatist here takes only the highest view of all these personages and presents each of them in such an order that they may be seen by all for who and what they truly are.

The study proceeds as an interpretive commentary, act-by-act and scene-by-scene, and should be considered with the text of the play at one’s elbow.

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