Henry VIII of England | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 37 pages of analysis & critique of Henry VIII of England.

Henry VIII of England | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 37 pages of analysis & critique of Henry VIII of England.
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SOURCE: “Seeing Tears: Truth and Sense in All Is True,” in Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 4, Winter, 1999, pp. 459-76.

In the following essay, Bosman examines the “sensory orientation” of Henry VIII in order to observe the theatrical relation of truth and vision in the play.

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In 1986 the editors of the Oxford Shakespeare restored to one of Shakespeare's last plays the title by which it had been known to its first audiences: All is True. We now know the play as Henry VIII; but this title does not appear in print before the First Folio of 1623. In fact, spectators of the performance on 29 June 1613, when an ember from a stage cannon set alight the thatched roof of the Globe theater, wrote of “a new play, called All is true,1 and their accounts suggest that Henry VIII was not the play's title but simply its subject matter. To the Oxford...

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