Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
In Our Time: Culture
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The Ensemble or the Star System?
Shakespeare's really good at making up those scenes that am offset what would otherwise be a procession of aristocrats overthrowing each other. In richard you get a moment where there's agar ea ta talking about the growing of plants, and there's a sense of an attempt to make history as organic as botany is. But it's being overheard by the queen who's just losing everything. And the strain in that moment is something that i think will come across to the audience. He liked gardens as well,. d in the number of times in which he will create a scene in a garden.
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