Several of Shakespeare’s history plays, and even some of his comedies mention or refer to characters as a knight. Sometimes knights are good, other times they are bad, and sometimes we aren’t quite sure what they are as is often the case with characters like Falstaff. However, what’s true is that an armored knight defending the honor of the monarchy were real people in Shakespeare’s lifetime, and the portrayal of them on stage reflects what was going on around the real 16th century audience. Here to help us sort out the legend from the fact surrounding knights in early modern England is our guest, Scott Farrell.