Shakespearean Criticism | Henry VIII (Vol. 61) - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Anderson, Judith H. “Shakespeare's Henry VIII: The Changing Relation of Truth to Fiction.” In Biographical Truth: The Representation of Historical Persons in Tudor-Stuart Writing, pp. 124-54. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

Presents a comparative analysis of the treatment of actual historical figures in Henry VIII and the biographical sources Shakespeare used to compose his play.

Champion, Larry S. “Shakespeare's Henry VIII: A Celebration of History.” South Atlantic Bulletin 44, No. 1 (January 1979): 1-18.

Argues that despite an apparent lack of narrative coherence, Henry VIII actually envisions and portrays a unified Protestant England via a cyclical view of history.

Cook, Albert. “The Ordering Effect of Dramatized History: Shakespeare and Henry VIII.” Centennial Review 42, No. 1 (Winter 1998): 5-28.

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