“….Margaret of Anjou challenged all gender notions, defied her own banishment and even brought down Richard III‘s terrorising rule….”
Er, Margaret of Anjou did what? She died in 1482, so how’d she manage that? Well, we are in Shakespeare Land here, where any lie is possible. Even poor old Richard’s “terrorising” reign.
Perhaps they know the answer here.
An amusing and interesting article thanks. And of course, Shakespeare was no dunce when it came to pleasing the Right People – after all, his monarch was a woman!
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