King John

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King John

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Unheroic history play in which kingly
authority is sardonically undermined

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The New Cambridge Shakespeare
King John
Edited by L. A. Beaurline

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Related essays from The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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England’s Place in the International Order by Manfred Draudt

Military Technologies by Patricia Cahill

Lessons from the Body: Dissection and Anatomy by Richard Sugg

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Alchemy by Katherine Eggert

Shakespeare’s National Types by David Bevington

Rome, Catholicism, and Italy by Stefania Tutino

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Related resources from the Folger Shakespeare Library

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Partridge, Bernard. "King John": Miss Elsie Leslie as Prince Arthur. 20th century?.

Magna charta: cum statutis quae antiqua vocantur, iam recens excusa, & summa fide emendata, iuxta vetusta exemplaria ad Parliamenti rotulos examinata. Londini: In aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1556.

King John prompt book, Shakespeare Under the Stars Festival.

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Byron Company (New York, N.Y.), photographer. [Six photographs of a production of] King John [starring] Mme. Modjeska [and] E. Proctor Otis. After 1900. - opens in new tab

Cruikshank, George. Mr. Kemble as King John [in Shakespeare's"King John"].1817.

Shakespeare, William. The Life and death of King John. In Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies: published according to the true originall copies. London: Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623.

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Anonymous. [The] troublesome raigne of John King of England. London: Sampson Clarke, 1591.

Foxe, John. Actes and monuments. London: John Day, 1563.

O.P., artist. [King John, I, 5:] "Good Hubert, Hubert, Hubert, throw thine eye on you[r] young boy." 1899?].

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England’s Place in the International Order by Manfred Draudt

Military Technologies by Patricia Cahill

Lessons from the Body: Dissection and Anatomy by Richard Sugg

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Alchemy by Katherine Eggert

Shakespeare’s National Types by David Bevington

Rome, Catholicism, and Italy by Stefania Tutino

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