Status Updates From Our Island Story: A History...

I wonder if I will get more out of Shakespeare’s “histories” after reading this, though there’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem, as I suspect lots of these yarns’ more colorful speeches may be more closely inspired by the plays than by more strictly historical references…

What it says on the tin. Funny, opinionated (not always my own opinions; it is very harsh on Eleanor of Aquitaine, without giving any reason other than to call her a bad woman), full of fairy stories as well as historical yarns, and very readable.