Shakespeare's Kings: the Great Play and the History of England in the Middle Ages
- List Price: $30.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Holiday House
- Publish date: 01/01/2003
Description:
In a fast-paced, engaging narrative, John Julius Norwich chronicles the actual events of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that inspired Shakespeare's history plays -- from the untimely death of the heroic Black Prince and Henry Bolingbroke's ousting of Richard II to the legendary Battle of Agincourt and the notorious eighteen-month reign of Richard III.
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Norwich draws on his knowledge of both the Middle Ages and of Shakespeare's own period to reveal why Shakespeare telescoped time, ignored certain facts, and embellished or created others, discussing such matters as the real identity of Falstaff, the accuracy of Shakespeare's depiction of Joan of Arc, and much more. The result is a volume that combines the appeal of Harold Bloom's recent bestseller, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and Barbara Tuchman's classic portrait of the Human, and Barbara Tuchman's classic portrait of the Middle Ages, the award-winning A Distant Mirror.
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