Hydra’s Heads
Terence Hawkes, 22 February 1996
The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dŵr
by R.R. Davies.
Oxford, 401 pp., £20, November 1995,0 19 820508 2 Show More
by R.R. Davies.
Oxford, 401 pp., £20, November 1995,
The Prince’s Choice: A Personal Selection from Shakespeare
Hodder, 137 pp., £12.99, November 1995,0 340 66039 2 Show More
Hodder, 137 pp., £12.99, November 1995,
“... 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 – Glyn Dŵr: I can call spirits from the vasty deep ... ”