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Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets

In Our Time: History

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The Importance of History

The Tudors are seen as the saviors after Richard II's deposition. The idea that the 15th century is culturally inferior to what came before or what came after, I think, is nonsense. Of course, that's replicated in what happens with Queen Elizabeth, with Shakespeare. But there's also, as a sense, that history is not the history that you three look at. It's myth, it's legend and doesn't have the weight we attach to it.

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