Anne Boleyn and the theatre of reformation | Howard Brenton
As his play Anne Boleyn, a drama of Henry VIII's reign, returns to the Globe, Howard Brenton recalls how it all started with his father's argument with a butcherMy father, who was a Methodist minister, once had a blazing row with a fundamentalist. This good soul " a butcher and fiery lay preacher always with a battered King James Bible tucked under his arm " argued that the miracles of Jesus really happened. Dad was …