Naked Shakes Debuts New ‘Death of Kings’ at UC Santa Barbara Ahead of Stop at Verona Shakespeare Fringe Festival
Performance Group Takes Royal Thrill Ride Through Shakespeare’s England and Lands on Prestigious Stage in Italy
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“Game of Thrones” has nothing on “The Death of Kings.”
Indeed, a case could be made for the latter as the original royal epic. Tracing the arc of early English history, it’s a super-charged smorgasbord of scandal, betrayal and vengeance focused on the rise and fall of some of history’s most renowned and notorious monarchs and vivid characters — King Richard III, Queen Margaret, Prince Hal/King Henry V, Joan of Arc, Sir John Falstaff and King Henry IV, to name a few.
