William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians - Softcover

Dockray, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752423207 ISBN 13: 9780752423203

Publisher: The History Press, 2002

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Keith Dockray, formerly Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Huddersfield, has taught more recently for Bristol University, the Open University, the University of Wales (Newport), and the University of the West of England.

Edition details

• Publisher: The History Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0752423207
• ISBN 13: 9780752423203
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160