【英文原著类】King Henry VIII(亨利八世).pdf

KING HENRY THE EIGHTH
KING HENRY THE
EIGHTH
William Shakespeare
1611
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KING HENRY THE EIGHTH
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
KING HENRY THE EIGHTH CARDINAL WOLSEY CARDINAL
CAMPEIUS CAPUCIUS, Ambassador from the Emperor Charles V
CRANMER, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY DUKE OF NORFOLK
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM DUKE OF SUFFOLK EARL OF SURREY
LORD CHAMBERLAIN LORD CHANCELLOR GARDINER, BISHOP
OF WINCHESTER BISHOP OF LINCOLN LORD ABERGAVENNY
LORD SANDYS SIR HENRY GUILDFORD SIR THOMAS LOVELL
SIR ANTHONY DENNY SIR NICHOLAS VAUX SECRETARIES to
Wolsey CROMWELL, servant to Wolsey GRIFFITH, gentleman-usher to
Queen Katharine THREE GENTLEMEN DOCTOR BUTTS, physician to
the King GARTER KING-AT-ARMS SURVEYOR to the Duke of
Buckingham BRANDON, and a SERGEANT-AT-ARMS DOORKEEPER
of the Council chamber PORTER, and his MAN PAGE to Gardiner A
CRIER
QUEEN KATHARINE, wife to King Henry, afterwards divorced
ANNE BULLEN, her Maid of Honour, afterwards Queen AN OLD
LADY, friend to Anne Bullen PATIENCE, woman to Queen Katharine
Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Lords and Ladies in the Dumb Shows;
Women attending upon the Queen; Scribes, Officers, Guards, and other
Attendants; Spirits
Scene:
London; Westminster; Kimbolton

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KING HENRY THE EIGHTH
THE PROLOGUE.
e no more to make you laugh; things now That bear a weighty
and a serious brow, Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe, Such
noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Those that can pity
here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear: The subject will deserve it.
Such as give Their money out of hope they may believe May here find
truth too. Those e to see Only a show or two, and so agree The
play may pass, if they be still and willing, I'll undertake may see away
their shilling Richly in two short hours. Only they e to hear a
merry bawdy play, A noise of targets, or to see a fellow In a long motley
coat guarded with yellow, Will be deceiv'd; for, gentle hearers, know, To
rank our chosen truth with