Henry VIII
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780521075381 (0521075386)
Publish date: December 2nd 1969
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Poetry,
English Literature
Previously, things I've read covering the historically crucial events surrounding Henry VIII's divorce and subsequent break from the Catholic Church have focused on Wolsey, More, Cromwell and Henry himself, ignoring Katherine, whom Henry is dumping in favour of Anne Boleyn. This is different: Thomas...
You know those directors/authors who go into retirement (or even sporting heroes, but this is book website so I don't think sports stars quite cut it) and then a few years later decided to make a comeback with another movie/book and despite all of the hype it ends out being little more than rubbish?...
Another one of Shakespeare plays that I listened to,through Librivox.I begin to suspect that, although I rather enjoy the comedies, I do not like the historical plays. I listened to this play till the end, but I couldn't say what the story was. I know it was about queen Katherine who gives birth to...
Though questionably a collaboration, I hope it was. Henry VIII is somewhat lackluster in comparison to Shakespeare’s commonly thought of last play The Tempest. In a rather perfunctory manner, Queen Elizabeth and her successor, King James, are honored in this play centering on Henry’s quest for an ...
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