Henry VIII (1925) Yale

by William Shakespeare

For other versions of this work, see Henry VIII (Shakespeare).

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THE LIFE OF
KING HENRY THE EIGHTH

 

EDITED BY

JOHN M. BERDAN

AND

TUCKER BROOKE

 

 

NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

 

Copyright, 1925
By Yale University Press

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First published, September, 1925
Second printing, October, 1959

Printed in the United States of America

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
	PAGE
The Text	1
Prologue	1
Act I	2
Act II	29
Act III	56
Act IV	81
Act V	94
Epilogue	118
Notes	119
Appendix A. Sources of the Play	147
Appendix B. The History of the Play	150
Appendix C. Authorship of the Play	155
Appendix D. The Text of the Present Edition	159
Appendix E. Suggestions for Collateral Reading	161
Index of Words Glossed	163

 

 

This facsimile reproduces an engraved portrait of King Henry VIII in the Elizabethan Club. It represents the king as he appeared in 1544, near the end of his life. The engraving illustrates the earliest period of the art in England and was executed by Cornelius Metzys (1511?–1550?), son of the Flemish painter Quentin Metzys.

 

THE YALE SHAKESPEARE

 

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Edited by

Wilbur L. CrossTucker Brooke

 

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Published under the Direction

of the

Department of English, Yale University,

on the Fund

Given to the Yale University Press in 1917

by the Members of the

Kingsley Trust Association

(Scroll and Key Society of Yale College)

To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

of the Founding of the Society