Anne Boleyn (play)

Anne Boleyn
Written byHoward Brenton
CharactersHenry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell, James I, George Villiers
Date premiered24 July 2010
Place premieredShakespeare's Globe
Original languageEnglish
SubjectEnglish Reformation
GenreDrama
SettingEngland, 1519–1536 and 1603–1604
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Anne Boleyn is a play on the life of Anne Boleyn by the English author Howard Brenton, which premiered at Shakespeare's Globe in 2010. Anne Boleyn is portrayed as a significant force in the political and religious in-fighting at court and a furtherer of the cause of Protestantism in her enthusiasm for the Tyndale Bible.[1]