Abstract
IN HIS NOVEL THE ASSAULT(1982), the Dutch author Harry Mulisch writes that the only one who really understood the English Wars of the Roses was Shakespeare. Innumerable volumes have been written about this period by professional historians, and there is hardly an historical person or event that has not been described and discussed. Moreover, the experts agree that however impressive Shakespeare's dramas may be, they are not true histories. Yet Mulisch the novelist pushes the experts' judgments carelessly aside. In his view the mythological dimension Shakespeare gives to these wars is far preferable to the painstaking accuracy of the historians; it is this greater dimension Mulisch pursues in his novel. The subject of The Assault is a fatal and bloody incident which occurred during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, the effects of which are still felt in the lives of its victims. Mulisch relates the event
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