A good look at the real history of the figures in Shakespeare's English history plays. Interesting enough for those who already know it.
For the past seven years I've belonged to a group that meets monthly to discuss classic works of literature. We make it a point to read and discuss at least one play by Shakespeare per year. Thus for a number of years I have prepared for these meetings by listening to lectures by Peter Saccio on h...
My summer project was to read each of Shakespeare's ten history plays along with their respective chapters in this book. I failed, in that I just couldn't be assed to read King John. Screw that play, I hear it sucks. It doesn't even talk about the Magna Carta, wtf?Anyway...the idea was to say hi ...
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