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The first page of King John from the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623. King John is closely related to an anonymous history play, The Troublesome Reign of King John (c. 1589), the "masterly construction" [9] the infelicitous expression of which led Peter Alexander to argue that Shakespeare's was the earlier play. [13] E. A. J.
John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century.
The novel Uncanonized (1900) by Margaret Horton Potter features King John. [6] King John is the subject of A. A. Milne's poem for children, King John's Christmas (1927), which begins "King John was not a good man", but slowly builds sympathy for him as he fears not getting anything for Christmas, when all he really wants is a rubber ball. [8]
John Bale's morality play Kynge Johan [:King John], c. 1547, is sometimes considered a forerunner of the genre. King John was of interest to 16th century audiences because he had opposed the Pope; two further plays were written about him in the late 16th century, one of them Shakespeare's Life and Death of King John.
However, Shakespeare's celebration of Tudor order is less important in these plays than his presentation of the spectacular decline of the medieval world. Some of Shakespeare's histories—notably Richard III —point out that this medieval world came to its end when opportunism and Machiavellianism infiltrated its politics.
King John's Death Scene: Act 3, Scene 3 of King John (1899), corresponding to Act 5, Scene 7 in the original play. Prince Henry attends a poisoned and feverish King John as Lords Pembroke and Salisbury look on. King John is the title by which the earliest known example of a film based on a play by William Shakespeare is commonly known. [1]
All of Shakespeare's histories were set primarily in London, England as it was the seat of the British Monarchy and the histories were all about English Kings in the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. Additionally large parts of Henry VI, Part 1 and King John are set in France and large parts of Henry IV Part I were set in Wales. [5]
Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare and is eulogised in a fourth. His significance as a fully developed character is primarily formed in the plays Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, where he is a companion to Prince Hal, the future King Henry V of England.