Henry THE EIGHTH

Henry the Eighth concludes Shakespeare’s sweeping history of the English monarchy. Abundant in both court pageantry and poetry, this last of the Bard's masterworks will surprise today's audiences with its bold characterizations and sinister intrigue. Henry the Eighth presents up-close the cruel dismantling of Henry's marriage to the loving, courageous Katherine of Aragon in favor of the young Anne “Bullen” (Boleyn).  This infamous act, motivated by politics as well as desire, is engineered by one of Shakespeare's most relentless villains—the Machiavellian Cardinal Wolsey. Less often produced than his other history plays, Shakespeare’s Henry the Eighth offers playgoers a rare opportunity to take a danger-laden voyage through the treacherous shoals of Tudor England to the glittering shore of the Elizabethan age.