Name: shakespeare´s kings,the great plays and the history of england in the middle ages: 1337-1485
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Author: John Julius Norwich
ISBN: 9780743200318

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shakespeare´s kings,the great plays and the history of england in the middle ages: 1337-1485

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Julius Norwich

Publisher

Scribner

Language

English

Pages

401

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.54 kg.

ISBN

0743200314

ISBN13

9780743200318

Synopsis "shakespeare´s kings,the great plays and the history of england in the middle ages: 1337-1485"

In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, esteemed historian John Julius Norwich chronicles the turbulent events of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England that inspired Shakespeare's history plays. It was a time of uncertainty and incessant warfare, a time during which the crown was constantly contested, alliances were made and broken, and peasants and townsmen alike arose in revolt. This was the raw material of Shakespeare's dramas, and Norwich holds up his work to the light of history to ask: Who was the real Falstaff? How accurate a historian was the playwright? Shakespeare's Kings is a marvelous study of the Bard's method of spinning history into art, and a captivating portrait of the Middle Ages.

John Julius Norwich

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John Julius Norwich (1929-2018) studied at New College, Oxford, and in 1952, joined the Foreign Office, where he was posted to the British embassies in Belgrade and Beirut. He participated in the British delegation at the Geneva Disarmament Conference. In 1964, he left his diplomatic career to focus on writing. He authored more than twenty books on the history of Europe and the Mediterranean, and his trilogy on the Byzantine Empire is one of the reference texts for that historical period. Lord Norwich was a member of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Society of Antiquaries and, in 1993, was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and belonged to the Executive Committee of the National Trust.

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