This book is a scholarly study of Shakespeare's plays. The author explores the distinctive and shared features of Shakespeare's drama and real history, showing how Shakespeare, a brilliant playwright living in England during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, used historical events to create history plays. Shakespeare was a genius who was not only skilled at using existing material and sources, but especially adept at turning them into original plays through creative borrowing. Whatever the real-life story behind a play, his deft artistic touch could transform it into an immortal work.
