Henry VIII's Cast of Forty-five in the Renaissance-style Fife Room of UCB's Wheeler Hall.

While Elizabethan actors were accustomed to doubling or tripling small roles, on their home stage they could use more extras than when touring productions. Henry VIII was noted for its extravagant production values from its very first staging, which literally brought the house down in 1613. The wadding of guns fired at Wolsey's Fete set the Globe's thatched roof on fire and it burned to the ground, but it was rebuilt within a year. A clip from this UCB production is included in the Video Gallery as part of "Shakespeare and the Spanish Connection." See also Gallery 10.g.1.