King John (play)
Scene from King John
King John is a play by William Shakespeare. It is a history play about King John of England. Shakespeare's source was Holinshed's Chronicles. It was probably first acted between 1596 and 1597. It was probably first printed in 1623 in the First Folio.[1]
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- Problem plays
- Late romances
- Characters
- Chronology
- Performances
- Settings
- Scenes
- Quarto publications
- First Folio
- Second Folio
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- Arden of Faversham
- The Birth of Merlin
- Cardenio*†
- Double Falsehood
- Edmund Ironside
- Fair Em
- Locrine
- The London Prodigal
- Love's Labour's Won†
- The Merry Devil of Edmonton
- Mucedorus
- The Puritan
- The Second Maiden's Tragedy
- Sejanus His Fall
- Sir John Oldcastle
- Sir Thomas More*
- The Spanish Tragedy
- Thomas Lord Cromwell
- Thomas of Woodstock
- Vortigern and Rowena
- A Yorkshire Tragedy
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- The Passionate Pilgrim
- To the Queen
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| Legacy |
- Attribution studies
- Authorship question
- Bardolatry
- Festivals
- Gardens
- Influence
- Memorials
- Screen adaptations
- Titles of works taken from Shakespeare
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| Family |
- Anne Hathaway (wife)
- Susanna Hall (daughter)
- Hamnet Shakespeare (son)
- Judith Quiney (daughter)
- Elizabeth Barnard (granddaughter)
- John Shakespeare (father)
- Mary Arden (mother)
- Gilbert Shakespeare (brother)
- Joan Shakespeare (sister)
- Edmund Shakespeare (brother)
- Richard Shakespeare (grandfather)
- John Hall (son-in-law)
- Thomas Quiney (son-in-law)
- Thomas Nash (grandson-in-law)
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- * Shakespeare and other authors
- † Lost
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