To this day, The White Hart and The Red Lion are two of the most popular names for a public house in England, both talismans that served as the coat of arms for Richard II and the banished Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, who usurped the throne in 1399. Actor, and writer of Exit Pursued by a Badger, Nick Asbury took part in the famed RSC Histories cycle of plays, staging Shakespeare's vision of the deposition of Richard II through to the famous Battle of Bosworth in 1485, and through this book seeks to explore the reasons why The Histories still seem to touch people as much today as they did 400 years ago, bringing with him the various actors that played relevant parts to his (& Shakespeare's) story.