I have spilled lots of electrons over how badly PJ mangled Tolkien's Canon.   
   So imagine my dismay at finding something like it in Shakespeare.   
      
   Act 1 Scene 1 of _1 Henry the 6th_ starts off with the funeral of Henry V.   
   Therefore the year is 1422.   
      
   However the eulogies and speech-making are barely getting under way   
   when messengers burst in to announce that Joan of Arc has broken   
   the English siege of Orleans and that the Dauphin has been crowned Charles X   
   of France at Reims.   
      
   So all of a sudden it's now 1429! Meaning that 7 years have gone by   
   in less than 2 minutes on stage.   
      
   What's even worse: the Temple Garden scene in Act II where rival Lancs and   
   Yorks   
   pluck red and white roses never even happened at all.   
      
   Moral: Shakespeare's historical plays might be entertaining Tudor propaganda,   
   but don't necessarily portray accurate history. Meanwhile PJ can't even get   
   imaginary history right.   
      
   cc: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)