History Plays
It is part of Shakespeare''s extraordinary contribution to our culture that, through his dramas based on English history, he played a unique part in forming our view of ourselves and our nationhood. From King John, in which through Magna Carta the king''s absolute power was first limited and the people''s freedoms assured, to--almost in his own lifetime--Henry VIII, Shakespeare wrote a series of t...
It is part of Shakespeare''s extraordinary contribution to our culture that, through his dramas based on English history, he played a unique part in forming our view of ourselves and our nationhood. From King John, in which through Magna Carta the king''s absolute power was first limited and the people''s freedoms assured, to--almost in his own lifetime--Henry VIII, Shakespeare wrote a series of t...
