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The Life of King Henry the Eighth

By William Shakespeare

  • editors: Craig A. Berry, Martin Mueller, and Clifford Wulfman
  • technical editors: Jeffrey Cousens and Bill Parod
  • editorial assistants: Lawrence Berland, Hilary Bina, Katherine Gould, Kreg Segal, Nicholas Terrell

The WordHoard Shakespeare is a joint project of the Perseus Project at Tufts University, The Northwestern University Library, and Northwestern University Academic Technologies. It is derived from The Globe Shakespeare , the one-volume version of the Cambridge Shakespeare , edited by W. G. Clark, J. Glover, and W. A. Wright (1891-3). The Internet Shakespeare editions of the quartos and folios have been consulted to create a modern text that observes as closely as possible the morphological and prosodic practices of the earliest editions. Spellings, especially of contracted and hyphenated forms, have been standardized across the corpus. The text has been fully lemmatized and morphosyntactically tagged.

© 2003. The copyright to The WordHoard Shakespeare is owned jointly by Northwestern University and Tufts University. The WordHoard Shakespeare is provided for free solely for non-commercial use by students, scholars, and the public. Any commercial use or publication of it, in whole or in part, without prior written authorization of the copyright holders is strictly prohibited.

The Wordhoard Shakespeare is derived from, but not identical with, The Globe Shakespeare , the one-volume version of the Cambridge Shakespeare (1891-3) edited by W. G. Clark, J. Glover, and W. A. Wright.

  • Act 1

    • Act 1, Prologue

      THE PROLOGUE.

    • Act 1, Scene 1

      London. An ante-chamber in the palace.

      Speakers: Abergavenny, Brandon, Buckingham, First Secretary, Norfolk, Sergeant-at-Arms, Wolsey

    • Act 1, Scene 2

      The same. The council-chamber.

      Speakers: King Henry, Norfolk, Queen Katharine, Surveyor, Wolsey

    • Act 1, Scene 3

      An antechamber in the palace.

      Speakers: Lord Chamberlain, Lovell, Sands

    • Act 1, Scene 4

      A Hall in York Place

      Speakers: Anne Bullen, Guildford, King Henry, Lord Chamberlain, Lovell, Sands, Servant, Wolsey

  • Act 2

    • Act 2, Scene 1

      Westminster. A street.

      Speakers: Buckingham, First Gentleman, Lovell, Second Gentleman, Vaux

    • Act 2, Scene 2

      An ante-chamber in the palace.

      Speakers: Campeius, Gardiner, King Henry, Lord Chamberlain, Norfolk, Suffolk, Wolsey

    • Act 2, Scene 3

      An ante-chamber of the QUEEN'S apartments.

      Speakers: Anne Bullen, Lord Chamberlain, Old Lady

    • Act 2, Scene 4

      A hall in Black-Friars.

      Speakers: Bishop of Lincoln, Campeius, Crier, Griffith, King Henry, Queen Katharine, Scribe, Wolsey

  • Act 3

    • Act 3, Scene 1

      London. The QUEEN'S apartments.

      Speakers: Campeius, Gentlewoman, Queen Katharine, Wolsey

    • Act 3, Scene 2

      Ante-chamber to the King's apartment.

      Speakers: Cromwell, King Henry, Lord Chamberlain, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey, Wolsey

  • Act 4

    • Act 4, Scene 1

      A street in Westminster.

      Speakers: Both Gentlemen together, First Gentleman, Second Gentleman, Third Gentleman

    • Act 4, Scene 2

      Kimbolton.

      Speakers: Capucius, Griffith, Katharine, Messenger, Patience

  • Act 5

    • Act 5, Scene 1

      London. A gallery in the palace.

      Speakers: Cranmer, Denny, Gardiner, Gentlewoman, King Henry, Lovell, Old Lady, Page to Gardiner, Suffolk

    • Act 5, Scene 2

      Before the council-chamber.

      Speakers: Cranmer, Door-Keeper, DrButts, King Henry

    • Act 5, Scene 3

      The Council-Chamber.

      Speakers: All, Cranmer, Cromwell, Door-Keeper, Gardiner, King Henry, Lord Chamberlain, Lord Chancellor, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey

    • Act 5, Scene 4

      The palace yard.

      Speakers: His Man, Lord Chamberlain, Porter, Within

    • Act 5, Scene 5

      The palace.

      Speakers: Cranmer, Garter King-at-Arms, King Henry

    • Act 5, Epilogue