[THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE EIGHTH ] . Henry VIII is a cooperative history play, composed by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, in light of the existence of Henry VIII. An elective title, All Is True, is kept in contemporary records, with the title Henry VIII holding off on showing up until the play's distribution in the First Folio of 1623. Expressive proof demonstrates that singular scenes were composed by one or the other Shakespeare or his...