Henry VIII (Vol. 41) | Marco Mincoff (essay date 1961)
Marco Mincoff (essay date 1961)
SOURCE: "Henry VIII and Fletcher," in Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. XII, No. 3, Summer, 1961, pp. 239-60.
[In the following excerpt, Mincoff offers stylistic evidence to support his claim that Henry VIII consists of two portions: one written by Shakespeare and the other by John Fletcher.]
The appearance of a new edition of Henry VIII1 in which Fletcher's share in the play is regarded as unproven calls for an assessment of the more recent evidence for and against Fletcher. In an article on the authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen2 not very long ago, I argued that the problem of that play and of Henry VIII was one and indivisible, that the fact of there being two (or, including the lost Cardenlo, three) plays that can for independent reasons be attributed to the collaboration of Shakespeare and Fletcher increases the probability of either ascription...
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