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Praise for the previous edition: So well written is this book that one does not need a purpose to pursue it. Even so, it makes excellent background reading for all of the Shakespearean history plays. --New York Times Book Review Praise for the previous edition: So well written is this book that one does not need a purpose to pursue it. Even so, it makes excellent background reading for all of the Shakespearean history plays. --New York Times Book Review This is a book that students of Shakespeare--from the general reader to the specialist who is wise enough to admit he needs help--will find most useful. Indeed, it is a book that one has always wished someone else would write. --Alexander Leggatt, Shakespeare Quarterly Saccio furnishes information...and he does so painlessly: he writes with narrative thrust, lightness of touch and lucidity....Few seasoned Shakespeareans willnot come away from the book more knowledgeable about the kings and their reigns. --Samuel Schoenbaum, author of William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life This book remains an essential companion to those literature students unfamiliar with English History. Clear and cogent. --Dr. Jon M. Suter, Houston Baptist University

<br>Praise for the previous edition So well written is this book that one does not need a purpose to pursue it. Even so, it makes excellent background reading for all of the Shakespearean history plays. --New York Times Book Review<p><br>

Praise for the previous edition: So well written is this book that one does not need a purpose to pursue it. Even so, it makes excellent background reading for all of the Shakespearean history plays. --New York Times Book Review<br>

Praise for the previous edition: ""So well written is this book that one does not need a purpose to pursue it. Even so, it makes excellent background reading for all of the Shakespearean history plays.""--New York Times Book Review Praise for the previous edition: ""So well written is this book that one does not need a purpose to pursue it. Even so, it makes excellent background reading for all of the Shakespearean history plays.""--New York Times Book Review ""This is a book that students of Shakespeare--from the general reader to the specialist who is wise enough to admit he needs help--will find most useful. Indeed, it is a book that one has always wished someone else would write.""--Alexander Leggatt, Shakespeare Quarterly ""Saccio furnishes information...and he does so painlessly: he writes with narrative thrust, lightness of touch and lucidity....Few seasoned Shakespeareans willnot come away from the book more knowledgeable about the kings and their reigns.""--Samuel Schoenbaum, author of William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life ""This book remains an essential companion to those literature students unfamiliar with English History. Clear and cogent.""--Dr. Jon M. Suter, Houston Baptist University

Praise for the previous edition: So well written is this book that one does not need a purpose to pursue it. Even so, it makes excellent background reading for all of the Shakespearean history plays. --New York Times Book Review

Praise for the previous edition So well written is this book that one does not need a purpose to pursue it. Even so, it makes excellent background reading for all of the Shakespearean history plays. --New York Times Book Review

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Peter Saccio is Leon D. Black Professor of Shakespearean Studies and Professor of English at Dartmouth College.

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