Edward III
Even Shakespeare was a slow starter
Fortunately, his reputation does not rest on Titus Andronicus, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the Henry VI trilogy, plays he wrote before the age of 30
It seemed like the end of days: the eerie wasteland of 14th-century Europe
The Black Death combined with the Hundred Years’ War left the Continent a desolate world, full of terror and foreboding
Black prince or white knight?
We cannot know for sure how Edward the Black Prince earned his sobriquet. For some it was the volatile mixture…
