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This beautiful novel is written by William Shakespeare

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Henry VIII By William Shakespeare

The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth is a history play by William Shakespeare, based on the life of Henry VIII of England. An alternative title, All is True, is recorded in contemporary documents, the title Henry VIII not appearing until the play's publication in the First Folio of 1623. Stylistic evidence indicates that the play was written by Shakespeare in collaboration with, or revised by, his successor, John Fletcher. It is also somewhat characteristic of the late romances in its structure.

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Henry VIII

William Shakespeare

Published: 1603

Categorie(s): Non-Fiction, History, Fiction, Drama

Source: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/ About Shakespeare:

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. Next he wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest examples in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime, and in 1623 two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's. Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry". In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are consistently performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world. Source: Wikipedia

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Act I

PROLOGUE

> I come no more to make you laugh: things now,

> That bear a weighty and a serious brow,

> Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe,

> Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow,

> We now present. Those that can pity, here

> May, if they think it well, let fall a tear;

> The subject will deserve it. Such as give

> Their money out of hope they may believe,

> May here find truth too. Those that come to see

> Only a show or two, and so agree

> The play may pass, if they be still and willing,

> I'll undertake may see away their shilling

> Richly in two short hours. Only they

> That come to hear a merry bawdy play,

> A noise of targets, or to see a fellow

> In a long motley coat guarded with yellow,

> Will be deceived; for, gentle hearers, know,

> To rank our chosen truth with such a show

> As fool and fight is, beside forfeiting

> Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring,

> To make that only true we now intend,

> Will leave us never an understanding friend.

> Therefore, for goodness' sake, and as you are known

> The first and happiest hearers of the town,

> Be sad, as we would make ye: think ye see

> The very persons of our noble story

> As they were living; think you see them great,

> And follow'd with the general throng and sweat

> Of thousand friends; then in a moment, see