Braunmuller offers a wide-ranging critical introduction, which focuses on the play's political relevance in Elizabethan England, its relationship to legal issues of the day, its treatment of women and families, and its overall aesthetic importance in Shakespeare's early career. He also provides a richly detailed stage history, full annotations that are especially sensitive to the play's language and staging, and an ample bibliographical study of the Folio (1623) text. --from publisher description.
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Richard I, is killed by a man named Austria. As left in Richard's will, his youngest brother John becomes Richard's successor to the crown of England. However, Constance, widow of Richard's younger (and John's older) brother Geoffrey, feels that her son, Arthur, should have become the new king of England.
The Life and Death of King John. [With an introduction by Henry Morley.]
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The life and death of King John ; The famous history of the life of King Henry the Eighth
Amid a backdrop of war, conspiracy, and murder, this historical play depicts the troubled reign of King John, who ruled England from 1199 to 1216. Shakespeare's most enigmatic king struggles with the shifting loyalties of his nobles as well as threats from his covetous heirs and the burdens of his own conscience. The play, which abounds in battles and betrayals, explores issues of politics, inheritance, and legitimacy. John's problems are threefold: he has usurped the throne from the rightful heir, his nephew Arthur; his relationship with the Vatican is troubled; and he is highly unpopular with his own subjects. Shakespeare's portrayal of the despised monarch finds a more heroic figure in Sir Richard Plantagenet, an illegitimate son of Richard I. The Bastard, as John's loyal nephew is known, forms the moral center of the play as well as a source of irreverent humor and honesty. A cynical play about power struggles, King John offers a remarkably contemporary mix of history and ironic commentary, balanced in equal measures by elements of tragedy and satire.
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King John is pitted against the united powers of France, Brittany, Austria, and the Papacy, and as alliances are made and broken, his weakness and reliance on those around him is revealed.
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