Shakespeare: The Word and the Action

History and "Henry VIII" (1x16)

Data de estreia: Jan 01, 1995

This play demonstrates Shakespeare's continuous experimentalism with, at the end of his career, yet another mode of dramatic action. Henry VIII combines history with the patterns of romance. It is spectacular history in which the title character is a godlike personage with a mostly inaccessible mind. The more interesting characters, Buckingham, Katherine, and the defeated Wolsey, are interesting precisely when they split from history.