[Borges]

You are comparing a hack like Oliver Stone to Shakespeare????

Only to provide a historical context so as to refute the idea that drama has to follow the letter of historical record. It's never been the case. Not then not now.

Stone is an absolute proprgandist for the left, who makes up BS out of whole cloth, and sells it to an unwitting public.

Just as 'Richard III' is Tudor propaganda. A hatchet job of the last Lancasterian king who was despised by the reigning dyansty. It's known today and was known then that the historical Richard was nowhere near as base a human being as Shakespeare's Richard is. Nor was Henry V as heroic. Any intelligent person knows that Stone's films are fever dreams not documenatries.

[R. Scott]

Any intelligent person knows that Stone's films are fever dreams not documenatries.

Emphasis on intelligent. The problem today is that far too many people learn their “history” from Hollyweird. My late wife was one of those people. She would continually complain when I picked apart a movie for its historical accuracy – until she developed an interest in history. We would then watch a movie together and make a game of picking it apart.