Volume 11, Number 4 · September 12, 1968
All the Way with Henry the K
By J.P. Kenyon
Henry VIII
by J.J. Scarisbrick
California, 561 pp., $10.95
By courtesy of Holbein the bloated Henry VIII of middle age is familiar to us all, tight-mouthed and pig-eyed, so obese that it needed machinery to haul him upstairs. In A Man for All Seasons Robert Shaw gave us the young Henry VIII, a booming, back-slapping locker-room bore, and a bad man to cross.
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