AKG-Images After the Vortigern première, doubts about the Shakespeare papers were freely voiced. Caricaturist John Nixon implicated the entire Ireland family, including from left, William-Henry ...

A Lancashire family proved ... that Shakespeare may have joined Lord Strange’s Men by 1592, and among the first of Shakespeare’s plays to be performed was probably Henry VI Part 1.

Shakespeare’s Henry V (stylised by Bell Shakespeare as Henry 5) is famous for many things. Henry’s rousing speeches. Its chorus directly addressing the audience. Its critical treatment of war.

You’re not just looking at a family tree here ... Richard III wasn’t as bad as that. Shakespeare wrote this play to flatter the Tudors. Henry VII is up next. And his son is that lovely ...