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

    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. The Delphi Classics edition of Shakespeare includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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    * The complete unabridged text of ‘King John’
    * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Shakespeare’s works
    * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPublishdrive
    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781786562814
    King John by William Shakespeare (Illustrated)
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.

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      King John by William Shakespeare (Illustrated) - William Shakespeare

      The Complete Works of

      WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

      VOLUME 13 OF 74

      King John

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2012

      Version 6

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘King John’

      William Shakespeare: Parts Edition (in 74 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78656 281 4

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: [email protected]

      www.delphiclassics.com

      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.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of William Shakespeare or the Complete Works of William Shakespeare in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      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

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