King Henry VIII (All is True).

Shakespeare, William, and John Fletcher. King Henry VIII (All is True) Ed. Gordon McMullan. (The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series.) London: Thomson Learning, 2000. xxxiii + 506 pp. append, illus, index. $7.99. ISBN: 1-903436-25-7.

This illustrated, comprehensive, and critical edition of Henry VIII is part of the Arden Shakespeare-Third Series, under the general editorship of Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, and David Scott Kastan. The copy-text chosen as the basis for this edition is the First Folio text, but as McMullan notes in his introduction, "the play is in several ways, as I have suggested, a play about change, about the negotiation of change and the denial of change, and its textual condition is part and parcel of that concern." As is usual with Arden editions, this volume of Henry VIII includes (besides the play itself) a general editors' preface; a preface; a lengthy introduction covering performance, cultural, and textual histories; notes; appendices; a list of abbreviations and references; and a full index (excluding entries on the play text itself).