Originally broadcast on the BBC series The Shakespeare plays in 1979. DVD includes the complete script in Microsoft Word document format. John Stride (Henry VIII), Timothy West (Cardinal Wolsey), Michael Poole (Cardinal Campeius), Ronald Pickup (Cranmer), Peter Vaughn (Gardiner), David Dodimead (Bishop of Lincoln), Julian Glover (Duke of Buckingham), Jeremy Kemp (Duke of Norfolk), Charles Lloyd Pack (Lord Sands), John Nettleton (Lord Chamberlain), Lewis Fiander (Duke of Suffolk), Oliver Cotton (Earl of Surrey), David Rintoul (Lord Abergavenny), Jack May (Lord Chancellor), Jack McKenzie (Sir Nicholas Vaux), Nigel Lambert (Sir Thomas Lovell), Claire Bloom (Katharine of Aragon), Barbara Kellerman (Anne Bullen), Sylvia Coleridge (Old Lady), Tony Church (Prologue), John Rowe (Cromwell), Alan Leith (Sergeant-at-Arms), John Bailey (Griffith), David Troughton, Adam Bareham, Jeffrey Daunton, John Cater, Roger Lloyd Pack, Michael Gaunt, Emma Kirkby, Sally Home, Michael Walker, John Rhys-Davies, Timothy Barker, Brian Osborne, John Rogan. Taped Nov. 27, 1978-Jan. 7, 1979 on location at Leeds Castle, Hever Castle, Penshurst Place, Kent.
Summary:
"One of Shakespeare's most elaborate 'pageant' plays, chronicling the life of an extraordinary English king."--Container insert. A dramatization of William Shakespeare's historical play, which tells of the intrigues during the first part of Henry's reign, his divorce from Katharine of Aragon, and marriage to Anne Bullen, who gives birth to a baby girl, Elizabeth.
Series:
The Complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare History
OCLC:
(OCoLC)46736762
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.