For the first time the reconstructed Globe Theatre staged Shakespeare’s most sumptuous and spectacular plays - Henry VIII in 2010. Dominic Rowan played the iconic Tudor King and  Miranda Raison, (star of BBC's Spooks) played Henry’s notorious second wife Ann Bullen (Anne Boleyn). 

Shakespeare’s Henry VIII was famous in its own day as a visual pageant of masques and royal ceremony, and was responsible for burning down the original Globe during a performance on 29 June 1613. The play centres on the young, married and charismatic Henry who will stop at nothing to make Ann Bullen his mistress.