King Henry VIII The Oxford Shakespeare

by Shakespeare, William; Halio, Jay L.

• ISBN13: 9780198130017
• ISBN10: 0198130015
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is the first fully annotated and comprehensive modern-spelling edition of King Henry VIII to appear for over a decade. It makes full use of current scholarship on the dating, authorship, printing, and sources of the play, as well as critical interpretations. The editor concludes that Shakespeare and his younger colleague John Fletcher worked on the script together but that Shakespeare was probably the guiding spirit.

Author Biography

Jay L. Halio is Professor of English, University of Delaware.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Introduction	1	(62)
Henry VIII, Shakespeare, and the Reformation in England	1	(10)
The Fall of Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey	6	(3)
Reform of the Church	9	(2)
Sources	11	(5)
Date, Authorship, and Printing	16	(8)
The Play	24	(14)
The Language of `King Henry VIII'	38	(7)
`King Henry VIII' in Performance	45	(18)
Restoration and Eighteenth-century Productions	45	(5)
Charles Kean and the Nineteenth Century	50	(3)
The Twentieth Century	53	(10)
Editorial Procedures	63	(6)
Abbreviations and References	63	(6)
King Henry VIII, or All is True	69	(149)
Index	218