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Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485

Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485

Norwich, John Julius

Paperback

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0743200314
ISBN13: 9780743200318
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: Mar 13 2001
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, esteemed historian John Julius Norwich chronicles the turbulent events of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England that inspired Shakespeare's history plays. It was a time of uncertainty and incessant warfare, a time during which the crown was constantly contested, alliances were made and broken, and peasants and townsmen alike arose in revolt. This was the raw material of Shakespeare's dramas, and Norwich holds up his work to the light of history to ask: Who was the real Falstaff? How accurate a historian was the playwright? Shakespeare's Kings is a marvelous study of the Bard's method of spinning history into art, and a captivating portrait of the Middle Ages.

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