Name: King John
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Author: William Shakespeare

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FL-0309E.V.

SHAKESPEARE, William

King John

c. 1

The odd one out among the histories: a succession war settled not by right or by battle but by a marriage arranged, mid-siege, by the townsmen of Angiers to make…

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William Shakespeare King John Overview The least-read of the histories and one of the strangest, because its hero is a man who is not in the history. Philip Faulconbridge, the Bastard, is Shakespeare’s invention grafted onto a real reign, and he spends the play standing slightly to one side of it, telling the audience what he thinks. What he thinks is that everybody is for sale. The plot is a succession dispute — John holds the crown, his nephew Arthur has the better claim, France backs Arthur — and the…

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Accession:FL-0309

Published:c. 1596

Language:en

Shelved under:Poetry and Myth

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