A hallucinatory domesticity marks this battle in early 13th-century France. Instead of swords, pikes and longbows, the troops are armed with modern household objects and sporting gear: a tennis racket; a golf club, a hobby horse, a mop. It's as though, in the lead-up to this war, depicted early on in Shakespeare's "King John," the French and English armies had equipped themselves by raiding your hall closet. Read ful…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:08PM on November 7, 2013