A review by dkrane
Henry VIII by William Shakespeare

2.0

Easily the worst Shakespeare play that I've read (although, to be fair, experts think a lot of it wasn't written by Shakespeare.) The writing is pretty much all plot, which means there aren't any many passages that stand out for their beauty. The characters are pretty flat, and the plot doesn't even tell very much of Henry VIII's reign. It's an interesting pair to read with Hillary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell trilogy, which provides a very different perspective on the same events, but those books are far superior to this one.