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Dominic Rowan, Ian McNeice, Kate Duchêne, Miranda Raison, Anthony Howell, Peter Hamilton Dyer, Sam Cox, Colin Hurley, Dickon Tyrrell, Will Featherstone, John Dougall, Michael Bertenshaw, Amanda Lawrence, John Cummins, Ben Deery, Mary Doherty
Henry VIII is a history play based on the life of King Henry VIII of England. The play opens with a conversation between the Dukes of Norfolk and Buckingham and Lord Abergavenny. Their speeches express their mutual resentment over the ruthless power and overweening pride of Cardinal Wolsey. Wolsey passes over the stage with his attendants, and expresses his own hostility toward Buckingham. Later Buckingham is arrested on treason charges - Wolsey's doing
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