Plays
- The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth by William Shakespeare
- Anne of the Thousand Days (1948) by Maxwell Anderson, originally played by Rex Harrison
- A Man for All Seasons (1960) by Robert Bolt, originally played by Richard Leech
- La cisma de Inglaterra / The Schism in England by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Read more about this topic: Cultural Depictions Of Henry VIII Of England
Famous quotes containing the word plays:
“Better to be despised and have a servant, than to be self-important and lack food.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 12:9.
RSV translation reads, “Better is a man of humble standing who works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.”
“I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“I bow’d not to thy image for succession,
Nor bound thy bow to shoot reformed kindness,
Thy plays of hope and fear were my confession,
The spectacles to my life was thy blindness;
But Cupid now farewell, I will go play me,
With thoughts that please me less and less betray me.”
—Fulke Greville (1554–1628)