The Play’s the Thing!
James Norwood on The Essex Rising as Shakespearean drama (Oxford bent) 2019
Shakespeare’s English chronicle plays are the most ambitious and insightful body of historical drama in the history of the theater. The first tetralogy depicts a fifteenth-century battleground of court intrigue that led to the Wars of the Roses. The second tetralogy looks back to the root causes of the civil unrest, beginning with the deposition of Rich…