William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians

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wars of the roses

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  • ISBN 9780752423203
  • Weight: 490g
  • Dimensions: 172 x 248mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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How and why Shakespeare propelled the relatively unimportant Wars of the Roses into the history books. For historians of the Wars of the Roses William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify Elizabeth I's occuption of the English throne; a blessing because, without Shakespeare, the Wars would not be known by the public at large.

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