Cultural depictions of Henry VIII
Henry VIII and his reign have been depicted in art, film, literature, music, opera, plays, and television
Art
- Lucas de Heere: The Family of Henry VIII
- Hans Eworth: Henry VIII (c. 1545)
- Hans Holbein the Younger: Portrait of Henry VIII, The Dynasty Portrait, and Henry VIII and the Barber-Surgeons (1540)
- Lucas Horenbout: Untitled Miniature of King Henry (c. 1526)
- Daniel Maclise: Henry Meeting Anne at Hampton Court
- Guido Mazzoni: Untitled Bust of Prince Henry (c. 1498)
- Joos van Cleve: Henry VIII (c. 1535)
- Willard Wigan: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Film
- Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time: Jim Cummings and Stuart Pankin
- Anna Boleyn: Emil Jannings
- Anne of the Thousand Days: Richard Burton (for which Burton was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor)
- Book Revue: Mel Blanc
- Cardinal Wolsey (1912): Tefft Johnson
- Carry On Henry: Sid James
- God's Outlaw: Keith Barron
- Henry the Ache (1934, Short): Bert Lahr
- Henry VIII (1911): Arthur Bourchier
- Henry VIII and His Six Wives: Keith Michell
- Inside Llewyn Davis: Llewyn performs a song about Henry and Jane Seymour for Grossman
- Intolerable Cruelty: Miles references Henry
- A Man for All Seasons: Robert Shaw (for which Shaw was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor)
- Monarch (2000): T.P. McKenna
- The Other Boleyn Girl: Eric Bana
- Pearls of the Crown: Lyn Harding
- The Prince and the Pauper (1920): Albert Schreiber
- The Prince and the Pauper (1937): Montagu Love
- The Prince and the Pauper (1977): Charlton Heston
- The Private Life of Henry VIII: Charles Laughton (for which Laughton won the Academy Award for Best Actor)
- The Sword and the Rose: James Robertson Justice
- Tudor Rose: Frank Cellier
- U.F.O.: Rusty Goffe
- When Knighthood Was in Flower: Lyn Harding
- Young Bess: Charles Laughton
Literature
- Suzannah Dunn: The Confessions of Katherine Howard, The Queen of Subtleties, and The Sixth Wife
- Carolly Erickson: The First Elizabeth, Mistress Anne, and The Last Wife of Henry VIII
- Antonia Fraser: The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1993)
- Margaret George: The Autobiography of Henry VIII
- Philippa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl
- Diane Haeger: The Secret Bride, The Queen's Mistake, The Queen's Rival, I, Jane
- Cynthia Harrod-Eagles: The Morland Dynasty, and "The Dark Rose"
- Virginia Henley: A Woman of Passion
- Eleanor Hibbert: Shadow of the Pomegranate, Katharine the Virgin Widow, King's Secret Matter, The Lady in the Tower: The Wives of Henry VIII, Murder Most Royal, Mary, Queen of France, St. Thomas's Eve, and The Sixth Wife
- Ivery Kirk, Luna Teague: One Does Not Simply Walk into Tudor
- Charles Major: When Knighthood Was in Flower
- Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light
- Maureen Peters: Henry VIII and His Six Wives (a novelization of the 1972 film)
- C. J. Sansom: Dissolution, Dark Fire and Sovereign
- David Starkey: Non-Fiction - Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII, The Reign of Henry VIII: The Personalities and Politics, Monarchy: From the Middle Ages to Modernity, Henry: Virtuous Prince, Henry: Model of a Tyrant, Henry VIII: A European Court in England
- Shelly Talcott: Fall of the House of Queens: Book One of the Shattered Rose Series[1]
- Mark Twain: The Prince and the Pauper
- Alison Weir: Non-Fiction - Henry VIII: The King and His Court, Elizabeth the Queen/The Life of Elizabeth I, Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII, and The Six Wives of Henry VIII, and Fiction - The Lady Elizabeth, Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession, Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen, and Anna of Kleve: Queen of Secrets
Music
- Bert Lee: "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" co-written with R. P. Weston; recorded by Stanley Holloway, The Kingston Trio, The Barron Knights, and Rudy Vallee
- David Munrow: Henry VIII and His Six Wives (soundtrack album)
- Rick Wakeman: The Six Wives of Henry VIII, and The Six Wives of Henry VIII Live at Hampton Court Palace
- R. P. Weston: "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am"; recorded by Harry Champion, Joe Brown, and Herman's Hermits
Plays
- Maxwell Anderson: Anne of the Thousand Days, originally played by Rex Harrison
- Robert Bolt: A Man for All Seasons (1960), originally played by Richard Leech
- Howard Brenton: Anne Boleyn, originally played by Anthony Howell
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca: La cisma de Inglaterra/The Schism in England
- Mike Poulton: Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (aka Wolf Hall Parts One & Two), originally played by Nathaniel Parker
- William Shakespeare: The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
- Six: The Musical
Radio
- A Man for All Seasons (David Scase, BBC Radio 4, 1959)
- A Man for All Seasons (Brian Cox, BBC Radio 4, 2006)[2]
- Crowned Hudds: "Fourth Wedding and Some Funerals" (John Glover, BBC Radio 2, 1995)[3]
- Henry VIII (Matthew Marsh, BBC Radio 3, 2009)[4]
- The Ghostbuster Diaries: "My Three Ladies" (Paul Darrow, BBC Radio 4, 2011)[5]
- The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII (Jonathan Coy, BBC Radio 4, 2003)[6]
Television
- A Man for All Seasons (Martin Chamberlain)
- Bewitched: "How Not to Lose Your Head to Henry VIII, Parts 1 & 2" (Ronald Long)
- Carlos, rey emperador (2015) (Àlex Brendemühl)[7]
- Disneyland: "The Prince and the Pauper" (Paul Rogers)
- DuPont Show of the Month: "The Prince and the Pauper" (Douglas Campbell)
- Henry VIII (John Stride)
- Henry VIII (2000) (Philippe Rouillon)
- Henry VIII (Ray Winstone, Sid Mitchell)
- Henry VIII at Shakespeare's Globe (2012) (Dominic Rowan)
- Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant (Laurence Spellman)
- Histeria!: "The Terrible Tudors" (1998)
- Horrible Histories (Ben Willbond/Rowan Atkinson)
- I Dream of Jeannie: "The Girl Who Never Had a Birthday, Part 2" (Jack Fife)
- Inside the Court of Henry VIII (2015) (John Sandeman)
- The Madness of Henry VIII: National Geographic Channel (Dan Astileanu)
- The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (1999) (Brian Blessed)
- Omnibus: "The Trial of Anne Boleyn" (Rex Harrison)
- The Other Boleyn Girl (Jared Harris)
- The Prince and the Pauper (1976) (Ronald Radd)
- The Prince and the Pauper (1996) (Keith Michell)
- The Prince and the Pauper (2000) (Alan Bates)
- Relic Hunter: "The Royal Ring" (Michael Hofland)
- Rose Without A Thorn (1958) (Kevin Brennan)
- The Simpsons: "Margical History Tour" (Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson)
- Six Wives with Lucy Worsley (2016) (Scott Arthur)
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Keith Michell)
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII (2001) (Chris Larkin and Andy Rashleigh)
- The Spanish Princess (2019) (Ruairi O'Connor)
- The Tudors (Jonathan Rhys Meyers)
- Wolf Hall (2015) (Damian Lewis)
- The White Princess (2017) (Woody Norman)
References
- https://www.amazon.com/Fall-House-Queens-Book-Shattered/dp/1514807297/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1552677870&sr=1-1
- https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7eb635f82fdd4f8a9b72fdec8711a322
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00psrfz
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00js7zb
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jyc9
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06hcbvs
- Cervera, César (1 October 2015). "Enrique VIII, el Rey inglés que deshonró a la tía madrileña de Carlos I de España". ABC.
Further reading
- Kratochvil, Eva. Crafting the Royal Image: Censorship and Portrayals of the Tudor Dynasty under Henry VIII (MA thesis, Concordia University, 2016) online; bibliography pp 65–72.
- Lipscomb, Suzannah. "A King Caught on Camera." History Today (April 2016), Vol. 66 Issue 4, pp 48+
- Monk, Claire, and Amy Sargeant, ed. British Historical Cinema (Routledge, 2015).
- Parrill, Sue, and William B. Robison, The Tudors on Film and Television (McFarland, 2013). ISBN 978-0786458912.
- Rankin, Mark, Christopher Highley, and John N. King, eds. Henry VIII and his afterlives: literature, politics, and art (Cambridge UP, 2009).
- Street, Sarah. "Stepping Westward: the distribution of British feature films in America, and the case of the ‘Private Life of Henry VIII’" in Justine Ashby and Andrew Higson eds. British Cinema: Past and Present (2000).
External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20161101075449/http://www.tudorsonfilm.com/
- King Henry VIII Character Page
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