Henry VIII (play)
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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
- Second Folio Title Page of Henry VIII.jpg
The first page of The Famous Hiſtory of the Life of King Henry Eight, printed in the Second Folio of 1632
- William Blake, Queen Katherine's Dream, c. 1825, NGA 11638.jpg
Queen Katherine's Dream by William Blake, c. 1825. NGA 11638, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
- 1577 printing of Holinshed's Chronicles.jpg
The first edition of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, printed in 1577.
- Dame Ellen Terry as Katherine of Aragon Shakespeare Henry VIII.jpg
Dame Ellen Terry as Queen Katherine of Aragon
- John Fletcher (1).JPG
John Fletcher, probably the author of more than half of the play
- John Lowin.jpg
John Lowin, possibly the first actor to play Henry
