Scenes
(18 total)

Complete Text

Act I

• Prologue
• Scene 1. London. An ante-chamber in the palace.
• Scene 2. The same. The council-chamber.
• Scene 3. An ante-chamber in the palace.
• Scene 4. A Hall in York Place.

Act II

• Scene 1. Westminster. A street.
• Scene 2. An ante-chamber in the palace.
• Scene 3. An ante-chamber of the QUEEN’S apartments.
• Scene 4. A hall in Black-Friars.

Act III

• Scene 1. London. QUEEN KATHARINE’s apartments.
• Scene 2. Ante-chamber to KING HENRY VIII’s apartment.

Act IV

• Scene 1. A street in Westminster.
• Scene 2. Kimbolton.

Act V

• Scene 1. London. A gallery in the palace.
• Scene 2. Before the council-chamber. Pursuivants, Pages, &c.
• Scene 3. The Council-Chamber.
• Scene 4. The palace yard.
• Scene 5. The palace.

Characters
(47 total)

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• All
• Anne Bullen, Katharine's maid of honor, afterwards Queen
• Archbishop Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Bishop Lincoln
• Both
• Brandon
• Capucius, Ambassador from the Emperor Charles V
• Cardinal Campeius
• Cardinal Wolsey
• Chorus
• Crier
• Cromwell, servant to Wolsey
• Doctor Butts, physician to the King
• Duke of Buckingham
• Duke of Norfolk
• Duke of Suffolk
• Earl of Surrey
• First Gentleman
• First Secretary, to Wolsey
• Gardiner, bishop of Winchester
• Garter, King-at-Arms
• Gentleman
• Griffith, gentleman-usher to Queen Katherine
• Henry VIII
• Keeper
• Lord Abergavenny
• Lord Chamberlain
• Lord Chancellor
• Lord Sands
• Man, the Porter's man
• Messenger
• Old Lady, friend to Anne Bullen
• Page, a page to Gardiner
• Patience, woman to Queen Katharine
• Porter, door-keeper of the Council-chamber
• Queen Katharine, wife to King Henry, afterwards divorced
• Scribe
• Second Gentleman
• Second Secretary, to Wolsey
• Sergeant, a sergeant-at-arms
• Servant
• Sir Anthony Denny
• Sir Henry Guildford
• Sir Nicholas Vaux
• Sir Thomas Lovell
• Surveyor, to the Duke of Buckingham
• Third Gentleman