Shakespeare and history. Barg M.

It just so happened that the English XV century, which has absorbed the background of the Tudor dynasty, the enlightened audience (and not only in Russia) knows mainly according to Shakespeare's chronicles - the cycle about the first lacasters and dramatic tetralogy about the war and white rose war. From there, many stereotypes go, and King Richard III was especially unlucky, who, with the light hand of the great playwright, appears as an absolute villain. But was everything really so? Mikhail Barg answers this question, and at the same time gives many details of the English life, although perhaps this is not the most important thing in his book. First of all, she talks about what there were ideas about the time in Shakespeare's era, which was understood as history and what role a person was assigned in the historical process, as well as how Shakespeare, sensitively listening to his time, answered the eternal question about human relations, authorities and society. Mikhail Barg (1915-1991) - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Member of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain.