![]() ![]() “I read about the things they did, I studied them and then imagined what they felt and thought and said and wanted from their lives. But his specialty seems to have been English history, with twelfth century ruler Henry II as the central character in The Lion in Winter, and he used thirteenth-century King John as the subject of his novel Myself as Witness and in the film Robin and Marian. Russian history studies led him to write about Tolstoy, Czar Nicholas, and Anna Karenina. ![]() Goldman’s written corpus is evidence of this fascination with history. ![]() Although best known for this play, The Lion in Winter, and the screenplay for the resultant movie, Goldman was a prolific writer who based many of his novels, plays, and screenplays on history, a subject he dearly loved. Long before the term “dysfunctional” was commonly applied to families, James Goldman gave the world a glimpse of this age-old phenomenon by creating for the stage the members of England’s original Plantaganet family: King Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and their sons. ![]()
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