Download or read book King John Henry VIII written by William Shakespeare and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mad world, mad kings, mad composition!” —King John In one volume, eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide fresh new editions of two classic histories: Henry VIII and King John. THIS VOLUME ALSO INCLUDES MORE THAN A HUNDRED PAGES OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: • original Introductions to Henry VIII and King John • incisive scene-by-scene synopses and analyses with vital facts about the works • commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers • photographs of key RSC productions • an overview of Shakespeare’s theatrical career and chronology of his plays Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.
Download or read book King John and King Henry VIII written by William Shakespeare and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Kittredge Shakespeare King John and Henry VIII offers the text of both plays, and glosses, as prepared by William Kittredge for his Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Performance notes by the New Kitteredge Shakespeare editors help readers imagine how key scenes have been, and might yet be, performed on stage and screen. New Introductions, Timelines, Topics for Discussion and Further Study, as well as Bibliographies and Filmographies, combine to help make this the edition of choice for performance-minded students of these fascinating historical dramas.
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Download or read book King John and Henry VIII written by William Shakespeare and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 2902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two history plays—one written in the early days of Shakespeare’s career and one at the very end—are alike in the complexity of their political vision. King John probes the nature of good and evil as self-interest and ruthless ambition proceed unchecked while an unpopular ruler wages a brutal fight to keep his throne. Henry VIII is a sumptuous spectacle of pomp and ceremony, as well as an exploration of the mysterious ways in which the rise and fall from power of individuals led ultimately to England’s destiny as a Protestant nation.
Download or read book Henry VIII written by John Matusiak and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling new account of Henry VIII is by no means yet another history of the ‘old monster’ and his reign. The ‘monster’ displayed here is, at the very least, a newer type, more beset by anxieties and insecurities, and more tightly surrounded by those who equated loyalty with fear, self-interest and blind obedience. This ground-breaking book also demonstrates that Henry VIII’s priorities were always primarily martial rather than marital, and accepts neither the necessity of his all-consuming quest for a male heir nor his need ultimately to sever ties with Rome. As the story unfolds, Henry’s predicaments prove largely of his own making, the paths he chooses neither the only nor the best available. For Henry VIII was not only a bad man, but also a bad ruler who failed to achieve his aims and blighted the reigns of his two immediate successors.Five hundred years after he ascended the throne, the reputation of England’s best known king is being rehabilitated and subtly sanitized. Yet Tudor historian John Matusiak paints a colourful and absorbingly intimate portrait of a man wholly unfit for power.
Download or read book King John and Henry VIII written by Frances A. Shirley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988. Arranged by play, the essays presented here focus first on production and then on a range of other issues such as characters, imagery, textual problems and themes. Both plays were more popular in earlier centuries and most later essayists focused on small issues rather than view the plays in wider perspective. More recent pieces included here seek organising principles for King John and look in more detail at Henry VIII. Beginning with the in-depth introduction by the editor, this collection shows the reception of the play by its Elizabethan audience compared to twentieth century audiences and looks at the history portrayed by Shakespeare. Some chapters review very varied stage productions while others are character analysis or individual focuses.
Download or read book Henry VIII Penguin Monarchs written by John Guy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charismatic, insatiable and cruel, Henry VIII was, as John Guy shows, a king who became mesmerized by his own legend - and in the process destroyed and remade England. Said to be a 'pillager of the commonwealth', this most instantly recognizable of kings remains a figure of extreme contradictions: magnificent and vengeful; a devout traditionalist who oversaw a cataclysmic rupture with the church in Rome; a talented, towering figure who nevertheless could not bear to meet people's eyes when he talked to them. In this revealing new account, John Guy looks behind the mask into Henry's mind to explore how he understood the world and his place in it - from his isolated upbringing and the blazing glory of his accession, to his desperate quest for fame and an heir and the terrifying paranoia of his last, agonising, 54-inch-waisted years.
Download or read book King John and Henry VIII written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book King John King Richard II King Henry IV part 1 King Henry IV part 2 Henry V King Henry VI part 1 King Henry VI part 2 King Henry VI part 3 King Richard III King Henry VIII Titus Andronicus Pericles Glossary written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King John Richard II Richard III Henry VIII written by William Shakespeare and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The life of King Henry VIII written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare The life and death of King John 1919 written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [V.23] The second part of Henry the Fourth. 1940.--[v.24-25] The sonnets. 1924.--[v.26] Troilus and Cressida. 1953.--[v.27] The life and death of King Richard the Second. 1955.
Download or read book The Life and Death of King John written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare s History of the Life and Death of King John written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199-1216), son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and father of Henry III of England.
Download or read book King John written by William Shakespeare and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King John - William Shakespeare - The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 11991216), the son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and the father of Henry III of England. It is believed to have been written in the mid-1590s but not to have been published until 1623, when it appeared in the First Folio.
Download or read book King Henry VIII Or All is True written by William Shakespeare and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first fully annotated and comprehensive modern-spelling edition of King Henry VIII to appear for over a decade. It makes full use of current scholarship on the dating, authorship, printing, and sources of the play, as well as critical interpretations. The editor concludes that Shakespeare and his younger colleague John Fletcher worked on the script together but that Shakespeare was probably the guiding spirit.
