Shakespeare's historical plays have an epic scale. Although he wrote about the history of Britain in the past, these plays reflected the British society in the Renaissance and people's concerns at that time, with distinctive national characteristics. He reflected the long process of the gradual disintegration of British feudal order with a broad social picture, diverse characters and vivid plots. He described the contradictions and repeated struggles between various social forces-mainly between kingship and feudal nobles, between feudal lords, between domestic feudal lords and foreign feudal lords, and between the ruling class and the people. He created a series of figures representing various social forces-monarchs, feudal nobles, bishops, officials, citizens, craftsmen, farmers, servants, soldiers and even hooligans and robbers. Many figures, especially feudal tyrants, not only have typical significance, but also have their own characteristics. Scenes of emperors and generals are intertwined with scenes of the masses, scenes of tragedies and comedies, main plots and secondary plots. The people are not the protagonists in his historical plays. Sometimes they are the foil of emperors and other protagonists, sometimes they are the spokesmen of authors, sometimes the authors express sympathy for them, and sometimes they slander them.