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The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight is a history play by William Shakespeare and (allegedly) John Fletcher, based on the life of Henry VIII of England. An alternative title, All is True, is recorded in contemporary documents, the title Henry VIII not appearing until the play's publication in the First Folio of 1623. Stylistic evidence indicates that the play was written by Shakespeare in collaboration with, or revised by, his successor, John Fletcher. It is also somewhat characteristic of the late romances in its structure. It is noted for having more stage directions than any of Shakespeare's other plays.
During a performance of Henry VIII at the Globe Theatre in 1613, a cannon shot employed for special effects ignited the theatre's thatched roof (and the beams), burning the original building to the ground.
As usual in his history plays, Shakespeare relied primarily on Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles to achieve his dramatic ends and to accommodate official sensitivities over the materials involved. Shakespeare not only telescoped events that occurred over a span of two decades, but jumbled their actual order. The play implies, without stating it directly, that the treason charges against the Duke of Buckingham were false and trumped up; and it maintains a comparable ambiguity about other sensitive issues. The disgrace and beheading of Anne Boleyn (here spelled Bullen) is carefully avoided, and no indication of the succeeding four wives of Henry VIII can be found in the play. However, Katherine of Aragon's plea to Henry before the Legatine Court seems to have been taken straight from historical record.[citation needed]
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(Prologue - intertitle): Ye will see the very persons of our noble story as they were living.
Duke of Norfolk: I advise you to consider that the Cardinal is all powerful.
Cardinal Wolsey: You are welcome and to all: "Good Health".
Queen Katharine: I have been to you a true and humble wife.
Queen Katharine: It is you who have blown this coal betwixt my Lord and me.
Queen Katharine: I do refuse you for my judge and appeal unto the Pope.
Cardinal Wolsey: Madam, you do me wrong.
Henry VIII: I abhor this dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
Cardinal Wolsey: O, Cromwell, Cromwell! Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, he would not have in my age Have left me naked to mine enemies Farewell, the hope of Court! My hopes in Heaven to dwell!
Griffith: Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
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