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Chronicles the life of Catherine of Aragon, describing her childhood in the court of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, and discussing her marriage to Henry VIII, her refusal to divorce him, and her impact on Tudor and European history.

Reviews the history of England's sixteenth-century monarch Henry VIII, investigating whether he was in truth the fool, liar, and rotten worm Luther declared him to be.

A biography of the sixteenth-century English monarch who effected the separation of England from the Church of Rome.

Presents William Shakespeare's history plays "King John" and "Henry VIII" with introductions and explanatory notes and includes an introduction on Shakespeare and his time, discussion of the plays' sources, stage histories of the plays, and several works of criticism.

Examines the lives of England's Henry VIII and his six wives, presenting a portrait of the world in which they lived and exploring Henry's motivations.

Meg, an innkeeper's daughter, as tall as the tallest man in Westminister, puts on her father's clothes and joins the British army setting out to invade France led by the King himself.