Henry The Eighth Home Page

This is the Home Page for Henry The Eighth. The page collects information about this work from across our site. Here you will find links to our edition; where available, you will also find links to graphic facsimiles of the books in which it was first published, a list of performances, relevant pages in the section on Shakespeare's Life and Times, and links to relevant sites on the Internet.

• Title Page
  • Henry The Eighth (Folio 1, 1623)
    

List of book facsimiles containing the play Henry The Eighth

• First Folio (1623)
  Brandeis University copy from Brandeis University Library
• First Folio (1623)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Second Folio (1632)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Third Folio (1664)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Fourth Folio (1685)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales

List of performances related to King Henry VIII

• Henry VIII (1957, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Henry VIII (1968, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Parables of Power: Shakespeare's Henry VIII (1987, USA)
• Cardinal Wolsey (1912, Laurence Trimble, USA)
• Henry VIII (2005, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Henry VIII (1971, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Shakespeare's NHL (2005, Upstart Crow Theatre Group, Canada)
• King Henry VIII (1990, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Henry VIII (1911, Will Barker, GB)
• Henry VIII (1998, Judith Shakespeare Company, USA)
• Henry the Eighth (2008, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Henry VIII (2009, Oregon Shakespeare Festival)

Summary list of artifacts related to the play King Henry VIII

• illustration artifacts (1)

Relevant links to other sites on the web

• Holinshed's Henry VIII
  Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580? Henrie the eight, sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth. In The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. London: Printed by Henry Denham, at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, [1587]. This text is made available through the Furness Collection at:
• The Catholic Encyclopedia: Suppression of English Monasteries Under Henry VIII
  Part of the Catholic Encyclopedia, "The Suppression of the Monasteries" is a Catholic discussion of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries in England during the Reformation. View this information at:
• Medieval Sourcebook: Letter of Thomas Cranmer, 1533
  An etext of the Letter of Thomas Cranmer on Henry VIII's divorce, 1533 is available from the Medieval Sourcebook at:
• The Learning City, Key Stage 2 History - On Board the Mary Rose
  The Learning City: On Board the Mary Rose offers a virtual tour of the 16th century ship as it might have been. A good narrative of King Henry VIII's quest to build up the English navy with excellent graphics can be viewed at: