Cultural depictions of Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII of England 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

Anna Boleyn: Emil Jannings
Anne of the Thousand Days: Richard Burton
Book Revue: Mel Blanc
Cardinal Wolsey (1912): Tefft Johnson
Carry On Henry: Sid James
Crossed Swords: Charlton Heston
God's Outlaw: Keith Barron
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
Monarch (2000): T.P. McKenna
The Other Boleyn Girl: Eric Bana
Pearls of the Crown: Lyn Harding
The Prince and the Pauper: Montagu Love
The Prince and the Pauper (1957): Douglas Campbell
The Private Life of Henry VIII: Charles Laughton
The Sword and the Rose: James Robertson Justice
Tower of London: Ralph Forbes
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
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, 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: Bring Up the Bodies, and Wolf Hall
C. J. Sansom: Dissolution, Dark Fire and Sovereign
Mark Twain: The Prince and the Pauper
Alison Weir: My Lady Elizabeth, and The Six Wives of Henry VIII

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

Opera

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
Pedro Calderón de la Barca: La cisma de Inglaterra/The Schism in England
Mike Poulton: Bring Up the Bodies, and Wolf Hall
William Shakespeare: The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth

Television

Bewitched: "How Not to Lose Your Head to Henry VIII, Parts 1 & 2" (Ronald Long)
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 (Ray Winstone, Sid Mitchell)
Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant (Laurence Spellman)
I Dream of Jeannie: "The Girl Who Never Had a Birthday, Part 2" (Jack Fife)
A Man for All Seasons (Martin Chamberlain)
Histeria!: "The Terrible Tudors" (1998)
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 (2000) (Alan Bates)
Relic Hunter: "The Royal Ring" (Michael Hofland)
The Simpsons: "Margical History Tour"
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Keith Michell)
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (2001) (Chris Larkin and Andy Rashleigh)
The Tudors (Jonathan Rhys Meyers)
Horrible Histories (Ben Willbond/Rowan Atkinson)
Wolf Hall (Damian Lewis)

External links

Cultural depictions of English and British monarchs

Kingdom of the English 886–1066	Alfred the Great Edward the Elder Ælfweard Athelstan the Glorious¹ Edmund the Magnificent¹ Eadred¹ Eadwig the Fair¹ Edgar the Peaceable¹ Edward the Martyr Æthelred the Unready Sweyn Forkbeard Edmund Ironside Cnut¹ Harold Harefoot Harthacnut Edward the Confessor Harold Godwinson Edgar the Ætheling

Kingdom of England 1066–1649	William I William II Henry I Stephen Matilda Henry II² Henry the Young King Richard I John² Henry III² Edward I² Edward II² Edward III² Richard II² Henry IV² Henry V² Henry VI² Edward IV² Edward V² Richard III² Henry VII² Henry VIII² Edward VI² Jane² Mary I² with Philip² Elizabeth I ² James I³ Charles I³

Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland 1653–59	Oliver Cromwell⁴ Richard Cromwell⁴

Kingdom of England 1660–1707	Charles II³ James II³ William III and Mary II³ Anne³

Kingdom of Scotland 843–1707 (traditional)	Kenneth I MacAlpin Donald I Constantine I (II) Áed Giric Eochaid Donald II Constantine II (III) Malcolm I Indulf Dub Cuilén Amlaíb Kenneth II Constantine III (IV) Kenneth III Malcolm II Duncan I Macbeth Lulach Malcolm III Canmore Donald III Duncan II Donald III Edgar Alexander I David I Malcolm IV William I the Lion Alexander II Alexander III Margaret John Robert I David II Robert II Robert III James I James II James III James IV James V Mary I James VI ⁵ Charles I⁵ Charles II⁵ James VII⁵ Mary II⁵ William II⁵ Anne⁵

British monarchs after the Acts of Union 1707	Anne George I George II George III George IV William IV Victoria Edward VII George V Edward VIII George VI Elizabeth II

¹Overlord of Britain. ²Also ruler of Ireland. ³Also ruler of Scotland. ⁴Lord Protector. ⁵Also ruler of England. Debatable or disputed rulers are in italics.

William Shakespeare's Henry VIII

Characters	Henry VIII Cardinal Wolsey Queen Katherine Anne Bullen Duke of Buckingham Thomas Cranmer Stephen Gardiner Lord Chamerlain Duke of Norfolk Duke of Suffolk Earl of Surrey Cardinal Campeius Capucius Thomas Cromwell Lord Sands Lord Abergavenny Lord Chancellor Bishop of Lincoln Thomas Lovell Henry Guildford Nicholas Vaux Anthony Denny Dr. Butts Garter King-of-Arms

Sources	Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall, his Lyffe and Deathe (1558) Holinshed's Chronicles (1577)

Adaptations	The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight (1979; TV)

Related	John Fletcher Cultural depictions of Henry VIII of England Globe Theatre

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