Henry VIII. Shakespeare’s Henry VIII is not the licentious, swollen-bellied, wife-dispatching monster we know from Hollywood. When we meet this Henry, he’s relatively young, under the thumb of the ...
See the story of Henry VIII from a female perspective as Shakespeare’s exploration of love, lineage and power, co-written with John Fletcher, unfolds in the Globe Theatre this Summer. You know the ...
The Guardian: To see or not to see? Every single Shakespeare play – ranked!
Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays ...
To see or not to see? Every single Shakespeare play – ranked!
Yahoo Malaysia: Happy birthday Shakespeare! His plays ranked, from worst to best
In a poem prefacing the 1623 First Folio, playwright Ben Jonson describes Shakespeare as “not of an age, but for all time”. Sure enough, in the 21st century, the Bard remains revered at home and ...
In Henry VIII, the Tudor Court is locked in a power struggle between its nobles and the Machiavellian Cardinal Wolsey, the King's first minister and the most conspicuous symbol of Catholic power in ...
LONDON (Reuters) - William Shakespeare's Globe theatre has finally put a 400-year-old taboo to rest by staging the play which burnt the original house down during the Bard's lifetime. The theatre on ...
“Don’t get too close to the king,” cautioned The Mirror and the Light’s Damian Lewis, who returned to his role of King Henry VIII ten years after Wolf Hall’s award-winning run. In March, 2025, Lewis ...