(Marty Rosen's article appeared in Leo Weekly, 7/14.) In 1398, King Richard II of England did something that astonished the cutthroat, blood-soaked world of medieval England: he stopped two noblemen from killing one another. The incident is recounted in great detail in Raphael Holinshed's "Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland" and in another chronicle by […]
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:02PM on July 15, 2021