A good look at the real history of the figures in Shakespeare's English history plays. Interesting enough for those who already know it.
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 ...