The Life of King Henry the EighthPenguin Books, 1981 - 150 pagini Caridad Svich offers a new take on the history play, which tells the story of Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn. Shakespeare's Henry VIII is a story of a brazen race to power and the desire for an heir. Advised by Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII is caught between church and state as he meets Anne Boleyn and seeks to annul his marriage to Queen Katherine. This episodic and plot-driven play examines the machinations of royal power. Shakespeare's Henry VIII, in this new translation by Caridad Svich, is a swift-moving, complex tale of intrigue. This translation of Henry VIII was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present work from "The Bard" in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, this project reenvisions Shakespeare for the twenty-first century. These volumes make these works available for the first time in print--a new First Folio for a new era. |
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... play bear any relation to the Reforma- tion , Shakespeare did his best to avoid saying so . Against such strictures only one kind of defense of the play is possible , other than insistence upon its appeal in a good performance - namely ...
... play who is sensitive to style will be bound to notice this incongruity , even if he does not necessarily wish to draw Spedding's conclusions . Let him read only the first two scenes and then continue with the third , or read II , ii ...
... play too undramatic - but are implying that the play's final act may have been extremely important to him , and that Shakespeare perhaps did not mind if the play's chronicle structure was as loose as that of his earliest history plays ...