{"product_id":"king-henry-viii-by-william-shakespeare-9781903436257","title":"King Henry VIII","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\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 fresh 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMcMullan makes a claim for the rehabilitation of \u003cem\u003eKing Henry VIII\u003c\/em\u003e, providing a full performance history 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424464126188,"sku":"9781903436257","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781903436257.jpg?v=1774768417","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/king-henry-viii-by-william-shakespeare-9781903436257","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}