King Henry VIII; or All is True
the new oxford shakespeare
$19.98
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2025
Summary
The Fall of Kings: Shakespeare’s Henry VIII
All is True is Shakespeare’s retelling of one of the most defining periods in English history: the marriage and divorce of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon.
‘Men’s evil manners live in brass, their virtues We write in water.’
Written in the wake of the sudden death of Henry Stuart, King James I and VI’s oldest son and heir, Shakespeare’s most ‘contemporary’ history play offers provocative parallels between the Tudor past …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198872023 |
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| ISBN-10: | 019887202X |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
| Author: | William Shakespeare, Laura Jayne Wright, Will Sharpe, Emma Smith |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 148g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 12mm |
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About The Author
William Shakespeare
Laura Jayne Wright is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University, working on sensory and visionary experience in drama. Her current project, Sounds of Distress, investigates women’s screams, moans, and complaints in performance. Her first monograph, Sound Effects: Hearing the Early Modern Stage (2023), examines early modern sound effects and their capacity to unsettle the spatial dynamics of the playhouse.
Will Sharpe is a full-time Teaching Fellow in Shakespeare at the University of Birmingham. He contributed a monograph-length study on ‘Authorship and Attribution’ to the RSC volume William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays (2013), and edited All Is True: Or, King Henry VIII for The New Oxford Shakespeare (2016). He is a revising editor of the updated Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2015).
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