Arkangel Shakespeare Collection Lib/E: Henry VIII Lib/E (Audiobook)

from TobinElliott

I feel like there's diminishing returns in these last few "Shakespeare and friends" works. This one was an awful lot of politics (the boring kind), a whole lotta telling, and almost everything important happening off-stage. That said, the scene where Cardinal Wosley's scheming is revealed and he...

from bookworm12

Henry VIII is the final play in the histories series. Although it's frequently challenged as being written solely by Shakespeare, I'm accepting it as part of the canon. The histories begin, chronologically, with Richard II and take us all the way through the Wars of the Roses. The plot covers the...

from et.carole

Not bad. Not excellent. Happy birthday to it this year.

from DinadansFriend

Well here we are in the ugly competition. "Worst plays by William Shakespeare". Wisely the first line is "I come no more to make you laugh:... And you won't. It seems to me, that a sort of historical pageant was required, perhaps to get some people to put their money down at the box-office, and t...

from amerynth

Shakespeare's "Henry VIII" is best remembered as the play that was on stage when the Globe Theater burned down. There's a reason that's what it's known for.... the play itself really doesn't hold up well to the bard's more famous works. Rife with historical inaccuracies, most of the action takes ...