King John by William Shakespeare (Illustrated)

By William Shakespeare

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘King John’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare’.

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• Language: English
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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781786562814

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

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The Complete Works of

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

VOLUME 13 OF 74

King John

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2012

Version 6

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‘King John’

William Shakespeare: Parts Edition (in 74 parts)

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William Shakespeare: Parts Edition

This eBook is Part 13 of the Delphi Classics edition of William Shakespeare in 74 Parts. It features the unabridged text of King John from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of William Shakespeare, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

IN 74 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Plays

1, Henry  VI, Part 2

2, Henry  VI, Part 3

3, Henry  VI, Part 1

4, Richard  III

5, The Comedy of Errors

6, Titus Andronicus

7, Taming of the Shrew

8, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

9, Love’s Labour’s Lost

10, Romeo and Juliet

11, Richard II

12, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

13, King John

14, The Merchant of Venice

15, Henry IV, Part I

16, Henry IV, Part II

17, Much Ado About Nothing

18, Henry V

19, Julius Caesar

20, As You Like It

21, Twelfth Night

22, Hamlet

23, The Merry Wives of Windsor

24, Troilus and Cressida

25, All’s Well that Ends Well

26, Measure for Measure

27, Othello

28, King Lear

29, Macbeth

30, Antony and Cleopatra

31, Coriolanus

32, Timon of Athens

33, Pericles

34, Cymbeline

35, The Winter’s Tale

36, The Tempest

37, Henry  VIII

38, The Two Noble Kinsmen

The Lost Plays

39, The Lost Plays

The Sources

40, The Plays’ Sources

The Apocryphal Plays

41, Arden of Faversham

42, The Birth of Merlin

43, King Edward  III

44, Locrine

45, The London Prodigal

46, The Puritan

47, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy

48, Sir John Oldcastle

49, Thomas Lord Cromwell

50, A Yorkshire Tragedy

51, Sir Thomas More

52, Fair Em

53, Mucedorus

54, The Merry Devil of Edmonton

55, Edmund Ironside

56, Thomas of Woodstock

57, Vortigern and Rowena

The Adaptations

58, Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

The Poetry

59, The Sonnets

60, Venus and Adonis

61, The Rape of Lucrece

62, The Passionate Pilgrim

63, The Phoenix and the Turtle

64, A Lover’s Complaint

The Apocryphal Poetry

65, To the Queen

66, A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter

67, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music

The Criticism

68, The Criticism

The Biographies

69, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear by Nicholas Rowe

70, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters by Henry Norman Hudson

71, Life of William Shakespeare by Sir Sidney Lee

72, Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London by Arthur Acheson

73, The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner

Resources

74, Resources

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King John

This history play was written in 1596 and depicts the reign of the ‘Magna Carta’ king, who ruled England from 1199 to 1216.  The play has similarities to another medieval play, The Troublesome Reign of King John, and many modern scholars believe it was a source and model for Shakespeare.  Holinshed’s Chronicles, John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments and Matthew Paris’s Historia Maior are also likely sources of the play.

King John

CONTENTS

Dramatis Personæ

Act I. Scene I.

Act II. Scene I.

Act III. Scene I.

Act III. Scene II.

Act III. Scene III.

Act III. Scene IV.

Act IV. Scene I.

Act IV. Scene II.

Act IV. Scene III.

Act V. Scene I.

Act V. Scene II.

Act V. Scene III.

Act V. Scene IV.

Act V. Scene V.

Act V. Scene VI.

Act V. Scene VII.

Dramatis Personæ

KING JOHN.

PRINCE HENRY, Son to the King.

ARTHUR, Duke of Britaine, Nephew to the King.

THE EARL OF PEMBROKE.

THE EARL OF ESSEX.

THE EARL OF SALISBURY.

THE LORD BIGOT.

HUBERT DE BURGH.

ROBERT FAULCONBRIDGE, Son to Sir Robert Faulconbridge.

PHILIP THE BASTARD, his half-brother.

JAMES GURNEY, Servant to Lady Faulconbridge.

PETER OF POMFRET, a Prophet.

PHILIP, King of France.

LEWIS, the Dauphin.

LYMOGES, Duke of Austria.

CARDINAL PANDULPH, the Pope’s Legate.

MELUN, a French Lord.

CHATILLON, Ambassador from France.

QUEEN ELINOR, Mother to King John.

CONSTANCE, Mother to Arthur.

BLANCH OF SPAIN, Niece to King John.

LADY FAULCONBRIDGE.

Lords, Ladies, Citizens of Angiers, Sheriff, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants.

SCENE. — Sometimes in England, and sometimes in France.

Act I. Scene I.

A Room of State in the Palace.

Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, PEMBROKE, ESSEX, SALISBURY, and Others, with CHATILLON.

K. John.  Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us?

Chat.  Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France,

In my behaviour, to the majesty,   5

The borrow’d majesty of England here.

Eli.  A strange beginning; ‘borrow’d majesty!’

K. John.  Silence, good mother; hear the embassy.

Chat.  Philip of France, in right and true behalf

Of thy deceased brother Geffrey’s son,   10

Arthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful claim

To this fair island and the territories,

To Ireland, Poictiers, Anjou, Touraine, Maine;

Desiring thee to lay aside the sword

Which sways usurpingly these several titles,   15

And put the same into young Arthur’s hand,

Thy nephew and right royal sovereign.

K. John.  What follows if we disallow of this?

Chat.  The proud control of fierce and bloody war,

To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld.   20

K. John.  Here have we war for war, and blood for blood,

Controlment for controlment: so answer France.

Chat.  Then take my king’s defiance from my mouth,

The furthest limit of my embassy.

K. John.  Bear mine to him, and so depart in peace:   25

Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France;

For ere thou canst report I will be there,

The thunder of my cannon shall be heard.

So, hence! Be thou the trumpet of our wrath

And sullen presage of your own decay.   30

An honourable conduct let him have:

Pembroke, look to ‘t. Farewell, Chatillon.  [Exeunt CHATILLON and PEMBROKE.

Eli.  What now, my son! have I not ever said

How that ambitious Constance would not cease

Till she had kindled France and all the world   35

Upon the right