PREFATORY NOTE

Summary

I am once again indebted to Mr. J. C. Maxwell for relieving me of a burden, my relief being all the greater that Henry VIII happens to be the last play in the First Folio to be dealt with in this edition and a play I find less interesting than any other in the Folio. Indeed, its chief interest to me is the question of authorship. I cannot enough admire the way this is handled in the following Introduction; for its cogency, its neatness (not a word too much or too few), and—I would dare to add—its finality; while I find the section on the play equally satisfying.