Plantagenets
The lionising of Richard I over the centuries
The Plantagenet king whose life was packed with glamour, blood and brutality would have relished the heroic legends that steadily accrued after his death
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
All the world’s a stage
James Woodall talks to the Belgian director Ivo van Hove, who has brought a swathe of Shakespeare’s history plays to the stage in Dutch (four hours of it)
