SIX TUDOR QUEENSA Historical Play

ICEBREAKER: Henry VIII and his Six Wives

What do you know?

What would you like to learn?

What have you learned?

BACKGROUNDPlantagenet Dynasty

Henry II (r. 1154-89)Richard I (r. 1189-99)John (r. 1199-1216)

Henry II

BACKGROUND (cont.)Lancaster Branch

Henry III (r. 1216-72)(four Kings: Edward I, II, III, Richard II)

Henry IV of Bolingbroke Henry V married Catherine of Valois

BACKGROUND (cont.)War of the Roses (1455-1485)Lancastrians (Red Rose) vs. Yorkists

(White Rose)

Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou vs. Richard, Duke of York and Warwick, the Kingmaker

Edward IV (House of York)Richard III (House of York) =’the usurper’ vs.

Henry Tudor (House of Lancaster) =Henry VII

Richard III and The Princes in the Tower

White Rose vs. Red Rose York vs. Lancaster

Tudor AncestryCatherine of France, widow of Henry V –

married Owen Tudor - Sons: Edmund, Jasper and Owen

Margaret Beaufort, Great granddaughter of John of Gaunt and Catherine Swynford, - married Edmund Tudor

Son: Henry VII (r. 1485-1509)

Tudor Rose Henry VII and Elizabeth of York

Henry VII and Elizabeth of York

Red and White RoseTUDOR ROSE: Red and White Tudor RoseHenry VII (house of Lancaster) married

Elizabeth of York (daughter of Edward IV, sister of The Princes in the Tower)

They had four children:MargaretArthurHenryMary

FAMILY TREE: THE TUDORS

Henry VIII

Modern version of Henry VIII

Henry VIII’s AdvisorsThomas Wolsey (1471-1530)

Sir or Saint Thomas More (1478-1535)

Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)

Thomas Cromwell (1485-1540)

THE PLAY

Henry VIII (1491-1547)Katharine of Aragon (1485-1536) - Queen 1Anne Boleyn (1507-1536) - Queen 2Jane Seymour (1508/09-1537) – Queen 3Anne of Cleves (1515–1557) – Queen 4Catherine Howard (1520/25-1542) – Queen 5Katherine Parr (1512-1548) – Queen 6

Food, Utensils and Table MannersMeat for the richCoarse bread and cheese for the poor

Knives, common bowls, fingers

Wash hands out in the open; do not put fingers in your ears, or on your heads; don’t blow nose, wipe off sweat, or scratch with hands, don’t poke around in the bowl.

Throw bones on the floor (not back in the bowl).The ‘release of wind’ is frowned upon.

The PlayHenry VIII (1491-1547)Katharine of Aragon (1485-1536) - Queen

1Anne Boleyn (1507-1536) - Queen 2Jane Seymour (1508/09-1537) – Queen 3Anne of Cleves (1515–1557) – Queen 4Catherine Howard (1520/25-1542) –

Queen 5Katherine Parr (1512-1548) – Queen 6

Katharine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn

Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves

Catherine Howard and Katherine Parr

Henry VIII’s HeirsEdward VI (r. 1547-53)

Jane (r. July 10-19, 1553)

Mary I (r. 1553-58)

Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603)

What have you Learned?”Sharing

Favorite Historical NovelistsNora LoftsEdward RutherfurdPhillipa GregoryMargaret GeorgeJean PlaidyAllison WeirRobin Maxwell

Favorite MoviesThe Lion in WinterMurder in the CathedralRichard IIIThe Tudors (TV series)The Other Boleyn GirlLady JaneElizabeth Elizabeth RAnne of a Thousand DaysMary Queen of Scots

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