Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
In Our Time: History
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The Prince's Reformation
The way Shakespeare's done it, I think it's really curious. The Reformation sort of happens in between the two plays. When we meet him again, he's already gravely listening to this long, long speech about the Salik Law. He started his etrallurgy with Henry V and finished it with Richard III. But what you saw was the extent to which Henry VI plays marked this appalling decline down to the horror that Richard III. And the casting choices that he made brought you right back to the end of the fifth at the start. We've in a particular order, the box set exactly.
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