Anne de Mortimer - Shakespeare and Richard, Earl of Cambridge

Shakespeare and Richard, Earl of Cambridge

The Southampton Plot is dramatized in Shakespeare's Henry V, and in the anonymous play, The History of Sir John Oldcastle.

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