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This is a rigged question. There is no one character who appears in all of Shakespeare's Histories, but because all of the histories are English Histories, the expected answer is "England". However, both Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra are also historical plays, although not placed in the "Histories" section of The First Folio, and they have nothing to do with England.

Nevertheless, the Elizabethan custom of writing plays out of English History (and there were a lot of such plays, quite apart from the ten Shakespeare wrote) was a part of a growing national pride in England under the reign of Elizabeth, which burst into flower with the defeat of the Armada in 1588. Elizabeth played her part in encouraging this nationalism as the following quotation from her speech at Tilbury shows: "I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm"

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