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  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Preface
  4. Original Production
  5. Characters
  6. ACT ONE
  7. ACT TWO
  8. HOWARD BRENTON
  9. Copyright and Performing Rights Information

Oh, I can’t see you any more. And now you can’t see me. Goodbye, demons. God bless you all.

She blows the audience a kiss.

The End.

HOWARD BRENTON

Howard Brenton was born in Portsmouth in 1942. His many plays include Christie in Love (Portable Theatre, 1969); Revenge (Theatre Upstairs, 1969); Magnificence (Royal Court Theatre, 1973); The Churchill Play (Nottingham Playhouse, 1974, and twice revived by the RSC, 1978 and 1988); Bloody Poetry (Foco Novo, 1984, and Royal Court Theatre, 1987); Weapons of Happiness (National Theatre, Evening Standard Award, 1976); Epsom Downs (Joint Stock Theatre, 1977); Sore Throats (RSC, 1978); The Romans in Britain (National Theatre, 1980, revived at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 2006); Thirteenth Night (RSC, 1981); The Genius (1983), Greenland (1988) and Berlin Bertie (1992), all presented by the Royal Court; Kit’s Play (RADA Jerwood Theatre, 2000); Paul (National Theatre, 2005); In Extremis (Shakespeare’s Globe, 2006 and 2007); Never So Good (National Theatre, 2008) and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists adapted from the novel by Robert Tressell (Liverpool Everyman and Chichester Festival Theatre, 2010).

Collaborations with other writers include Brassneck (with David Hare, Nottingham Playhouse, 1972); Pravda (with David Hare, National Theatre, Evening Standard Award, 1985) and Moscow Gold (with Tariq Ali, RSC, 1990).

Versions of classics include The Life of Galileo (1980) and Danton’s Death (1982) both for the National Theatre, Goethe’s Faust (1995/6) for the RSC and a new version of Danton’s Death for the National Theatre (2010).

He wrote thirteen episodes of the BBC1 drama series Spooks (2001–2005, BAFTA Best Drama Series, 2003).

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

A Nick Hern Book

Anne Boleyn first published in Great Britain as a paperback original in 2010 by Nick Hern Books Limited, The Glasshouse, 49a Goldhawk Road, London W12 8QP

Reprinted with revisions in 2011

This ebook edition first published in 2012

Anne Boleyn copyright © 2010, 2011 Howard Brenton

Howard Brenton has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work

Cover image: Miranda Raison as Anne Boleyn, photograph by

Manuel Harlan, costume designed by Angela Davis

Cover design: Ned Hoste, 2H

Typeset by Nick Hern Books, London

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 78001 021 2 (ePub format)

ISBN 978 1 84842 099 1 (Print edition)

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