For historians William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify their occupation of the throne; a blessing because without Shakespeare's 8-play history cycle, hardly anyone beyond specialists in the history of the period would know of their existence.
| Blessing | A curse because he immortalized |
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Fonthill Media William shakespeare, the wars of the roses and the historians, paperback/***
