{"product_id":"9781903436257","title":"King Henry VIII: Third Series","description":"Author: McMullan\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781903436257\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 17 Mar 2009\u003cbr\u003ePages: 544 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eKing Henry VIII\u003c\/em\u003e has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a new perspective on this ironic, multi-layered, collaborative play, revealing it as a complex meditation on the progress of Reformation which sees English life since Henry VIII's day as a series of bewildering changes in national and personal allegiance and represents 'history' as the product of varied and contradictory testimony. McMullan makes a powerful claim for the rehabilitation of Henry VIII, providing the fullest performance history of any edition to date and reading the work not as a marginal 'late' Shakespeare play but as a play which is paradigmatic of the achievement of Renaissance drama as a whole.\u003cbr\u003e'This is a staggeringly brilliant, captivating edition that will undoubtedly occasion a huge surge of critical interest in this neglected play. For those of us who have never taken \u003cem\u003eHenry VIII\u003c\/em\u003e very seriously, perhaps dismissing it as a late collaborative play of no consequence or as conservative propaganda, McMullan's introduction is genuinely revelatory.' Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada at Reno, Shakespeare Survey","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46616121245854,"sku":"UBD-9781903436257","price":27.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781903436257.jpg?v=1773809527","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781903436257","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}