Henry VIII (play)

Queen Katherine's Dream by William Blake

Henry VIII is a play by William Shakespeare. It is a history play. Shakespeare's sources were Holinshed's Chronicles and The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe. The play was first acted between 1612 and 1613. It was probably first printed in 1623 in the First Folio.^[1]

Henry VIII (play) Media

The first page of The Famous Hiſtory of the Life of King Henry Eight, printed in the Second Folio of 1632
Queen Katherine's Dream by William Blake, c. 1825. NGA 11638, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The first edition of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, printed in 1577.
Dame Ellen Terry as Queen Katherine of Aragon
John Fletcher, probably the author of more than half of the play
John Lowin, possibly the first actor to play Henry

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