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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 8200381" data-attributes="member: 6801060">Shakespeare's historicals speed up or slow down timelines, get things out of order, have people in places or in scenes they couldn't possibly have been at, and are riddled with anachronisms. Sometimes he reshapes stories and people in a completely ahistorical manner (looking at you Macbeth). And then there's King John, where he just throws any semblance of the actual chronology completely out the window. But, it's all in the name of a good story - and that's all that matters in the end for something that is supposed to entertain, isn't it? If something is supposed to educate, then, yes, harp on its inaccuracies; but you have to be flexible when it just supposed to entertain (as long as there aren't any claims of accuracy for things that demonstrably aren't)</blockquote>