This book brings together tin one volume A.L. Rowe's Introductions to easch of Shakespeare's plays. As the leading authority on the Elizabethan Age - the background to Shakespeare's life and work and the proper perspective in which to see both - Rowse throws much interesting new light on the circumstances in which the plays were written and the personal and external experiences that went into them.
The Battle of Bosworth, fought on 22nd August 1485 brought to an end the Wars of the Roses, that had raged between the noble houses of York and Lancaster for nearly 100 years. A.L. Rowse recreates the dynastic conflict, the battles and sudden death and the transition from Medieval to Tudor England.
This series collects together the best-known aphorisms, epigrams and reflections of a wide variety of figures from antiquity to our own age: humorists and novelists, poets and philosophers, politicians and playwrights.
"In this superbly illustrated book, the well-known historian A.L. Rowse takes the reader on an intriguing tour of Britain, pointing out the multitude of ways in which Britain's history can be glimpsed today, and examining the 'best of man's achivements' throughout the ages which have become a part of the British heritage"--Jacket
