Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong first heard the name “Hotspur” at age 12 in Shakespeare’sHenry IVplay and it changed her life forever. Scouring libraries in her Midwestern town for informationon Hotspur—Sir Harry Percy, a real person considered England’s finest knight circa 1400—shecouldn’t find much. But she never forgot Hotspur or the suspicion thatperhapsShakespearestretched reality a little—or a lot—inportraying him