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Believed to be Shakespeare’s very last play， Henry VIII is probably best remembered as the play which， when performed in June 1613， led to the Globe Theatre burning down due to the fireworks and cannon fire listed in the stage directions. However， otherwise the play has puzzled critics， who can see little more in it than a nostalgic account of Henry’s reign， and the prophetic birth and christening of Elizabeth， Shakespeare’s Queen， which takes place at the end of the play.Henry VIII deals with the intrigue which surrounds Henry’s court， and in particular the controversial figure of Cardinal Wolsey， and Henry’s separation from his wife Katherine， and infatuation with Anne Bullen. However， there is little sense of the psychological complexity created by Shakespeare in earlier history plays like Henry V. Henry VIII himself is a grand but distant figure， and the virulent anti-Catholicism lacks complexity. Within an increasingly troubled political period， the final hopeful invocation of ’Peace， plenty， love， truth’ seems rather flat， as does the play as a whole. This has led many critics to argue that Shakespeare was just one of many collaborators in the writing of the play. --Jerry Brotton --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

Book Description
King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon， yet has been consistently misrepresented， both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a new perspective on this ironic， multi-layered， collaborative play， revealing it as a complex meditation on the progress of Reformation which sees English life since Henry VIII’s day as a series of bewildering changes in national and personal allegiance and represents ’history’ as the product of varied and contradictory testimony. McMullan makes a powerful claim for the rehabilitation of Henry VIII， providing the fullest performance history of any edition to date and reading the work not as a marginal ’late’ Shakespeare play but as a play which is paradigmatic of the achievement of Renaissance drama as a whole.