OF KING HENRY THE EIGHTH; ARRANGED FOR REPRESENTATION AT THE PRINCESS'S THEATRE, BY CHARLES KEAN. FIRST PERFORMED ON WEDNESDAY, 16TH MAY, 1855. Third Edition. ENTERED AT STATIONER'S HALL. London: PRINTED BY JOHN K. CHAPMAN AND CO., 5, SHOE LANE, AND PETERBOROUGH COURT, FLEET STREET. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE BEQUEST OF 1918 13485.34.5.3 JOHN K. CHAPMAN AND COMPANY, 5, SHOE LANE, AND PETERBOROUGH COURT, FLEET STREET. DRAMATIS PERSON Æ. KING HENRY THE EIGHTH CARDINAL WOLSEY CARDINAL CAMPEIUS CAPUCIUS (Ambassador from the Emperor Charles V.) Mr. WALTER LACY. Mr. CHARLES KEAN. .Mr. F. COOKE. Mr. PAULO. CRANMER (Archbishop of Canterbury) ..Mr. GRAHAM. QUEEN KATHARINE (Wife to King Mrs. CHARLES KEAN Henry-afterwards divorced) ANNE BOLEYN, (her Maid of Honour-Miss HEATH. afterwards Queen) AN OLD LADY (Friend to Anne Boleyn) Mrs. WINSTANLEY. PATIENCE (Woman to Queen Katharine) Miss DALY. LADIES IN WAITING: Miss CARLOTTA LECLERCQ, Miss MURRAY, Miss EGLINTON, Miss DESBOROUGH, Miss VIVASH, Miss C, PARKES, Mrs. SAKER, Miss KATE TERRY, Miss R. LECLERCQ; together with Miss BROUGHAM and Miss E. BROUGHAM (who will sing the Duet of "Orpheus with his Lute.") Lords, Ladies, Bishops, Judges, Lord Mayor and Aldermen, Barons of the Cinque Ports, Doctors of Divinity, Doctors of Law, Chaplains, Priests, Monks, Gentlemen, Choristers, Citizens, Pursuivants, Vergers, Rowers, Tipstaves, Guards, Trumpeters. Henchmen, Torch Bearers, Drummers, Fifers, Mace-bearers, Gentlemen Ushers, Pillar-bearers, Crossbearers, and Footmen. The Scenery, under the Direction of Mr. GRIEVE, and Painted by Mr. GRIEVE, Mr. W. GORDON, Mr. F. LLOYDS, Mr. F. FENTON, Mr. SEWARD, Mr. JONES, Mr. MORGAN, and numerous Assistants. The Overture and Music composed for the occasion by Mr. J. L. HATTON. The Dances and Action by Mr. OSCAR BYRN. The Dresses by Mrs. and Miss HOGGINS. The Machinery by Mr. G. HoDSDON. The Decorations and Appointments by Mr. E. W. BRADWELL. Perruquier, Mr. ASPLIN, of No. 13, New Bond Street. For references to Historical authorities indicated by figures, see end of each Act. PREFACE. In continuing the series of historical illustrations successively presented to the public at the Princess's Theatre, I have on this occasion selected Shakespere's King Henry the Eighth, as not only offering a marked contrast to the remote and gorgeous antiquity of Sardanapalus, the barbaric wildness of Macbeth, the feudal pomp of King John, and the exciting variety of Richard the Third; but as em bracing a period and a chain of events more recent and more familiar, connected with a higher civilization, intimately associated with our strongest national feelings, and above all, productive of that wonderful and controlling change in the destinies of England-THE REFORMATION. This play is supposed to have been written in 1601, fifty-five years after the death of the monarch, a portion of whose life is therein delineated. The five acts occupy twelve years of a busy and most important reign (commencing in 1521, and ending with the christening of the infant Elizabeth in 1533); and include those leading incidents which were the human means of establishing the standard religion of our country. The interest of the subject is also peculiarly increased, when we reflect that this dramatic history was moulded by the master mind of Eng |