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King Henry VIII: Third Series
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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King Henry VIII: Third Series
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) William Shakespeare
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Edited by Professor Gordon McMullan
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| Series | The Arden Shakespeare Third Series |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:544 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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| Category/Genre | Shakespeare plays |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781903436257
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| Classifications | Dewey:822.33 |
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| Audience | | A / AS level | | Undergraduate | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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| Imprint |
The Arden Shakespeare
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| Publication Date |
2 November 2000 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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 Biography
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.
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