King Henry VIII; or All is True

Auteur

William Shakespeare Laura Jayne Wright is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University, working on sensory and visionary experience in drama. Her current project, Sounds of Distress, investigates women's screams, moans, and complaints in performance. Her first monograph, Sound Effects: Hearing the Early Modern Stage (2023), examines early modern sound effects and their capacity to unsettle the spatial dynamics of the playhouse. Will Sharpe is a full-time Teaching Fellow in Shakespeare at the University of Birmingham. He contributed a monograph-length study on 'Authorship and Attribution' to the RSC volume William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays (2013), and edited All Is True: Or, King Henry VIII for The New Oxford Shakespeare (2016). He is a revising editor of the updated Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2015).

Texte du rabat

All is True is Shakespeare's retelling of one of the most defining periods in English history, the marriage and divorce of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon.