This is how life imitates art: During the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Catholic King James II was deposed, largely without blood, via an elaborate conspiracy that installed his protestant daughter, Mary, and her husband, William Henry of Orange.

As Jon Stewart points out, “That’s King Lear!”

That play was banned for several years after the revolution, and we know this because last night, Stewart sat down to talk to Michael Barone, author of Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Uprising That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers. The book argues that the American Revolution took most of its cues from the Glorious Revolution, some ninety years before. In the interview, Barone discusses the climate from which the Glorious Revolution sprung forth, the parallels in the United States, and how our War for Independence wasn’t such a revolutionary move after all.

Watch the whole interview here.