Category: Henry VIII

Thank you to Gordon McMullan for offering our introduction to Henry VIII.

Gordon McMullan is Professor of English and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre at King’s College London. He is a general textual editor of the Norton Shakespeare, 3E, for which he edited two texts of Romeo and Juliet, and a general editor of the Arden Early Modern Drama series. His publications include The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher (1994), the Arden 3 edition of Henry VIII (2000), Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing (2007), the collaboratively authored Antipodal Shakespeare: Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916-2016 (2018), essays in a range of periodicals including Shakespeare Quarterly and Renaissance Drama, and several collections of essays. By way of a change, he is currently writing a cultural history of the cormorant.

Many thanks to my friend Joey Bianco of Whim Wham for the animated video elements.

Here are some resources to help guide your way into Henry VIII:

• Resources, character map, and infographic from Course Hero.
• Find good resources on Henry VIII from the Folger Shakespeare Library or the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
• View a synopsius of the play from the Folger Shakespeare Library.
• Hear a full audiobook online from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival or AudioBookBuzz.
• Learn about the real Henry VIII from Five Minute Biographies.

Thanks for Dan Hainsworth for letting us use his Shakespeare icons, as shown above right.

Enjoy these images of Henry VIII from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Find more here.