Hydra’s Heads

Terence Hawkes

  • The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dŵr by R.R. Davies
    Oxford, 401 pp, £20.00, November 1995, ISBN 0 19 820508 2
  • The Prince’s Choice: A Personal Selection from Shakespeare
    Hodder, 137 pp, £12.99, November 1995, ISBN 0 340 66039 2

Princes of Wales have always been difficult to pin down. National heroes or terrorist thugs? Reasonable coves or domestic tyrants? Friends of the people or pals of Hitler? A sort of duplicity seems to go with the job. The exchange between Owain Glyn Dŵr and Hotspur in Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part One –

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