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Monday, 24 August 2020

Another of Shakespeare's blunders

 In Henry 5 Shakespeare stakes English claims to France on the Salic lands law whereas the salt marshes this law refers to are the Pontine Marsh near Rome drained by Mussolini in the 1930's.

Che imbroglio!

Posted by Joseph Paul Mc Carroll at 17:31
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