The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England: The First Quarto, 1591, which Shakspere Rewrote (about 1595) as His "Life and Death of King John" ...Frederick James Furnivall C. Praetorius, 1888 |
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Abbots Alma Murray Angiers anſwere Arthur Bastard befoze Blanch Brother cauſe Chattilion chaunce Citizens commaund Conftance Crowne death demaund diuell doth dramatist Duke of Britaine Effex Elianor Enter Exeunt F. J. FURNIVALL felfe fonne foule Frier fuch giue Grandame hath haue heare heauens heire Henry Highnes himſelfe holy honour Hubert de Burgh Iohn John of England K.John K.Philip King John King of England King of Fraunce King Richard Ladie land lawfull leaue Lewes liue Lord loue Lozd Lymoges Mother moze muſt neuer Nunne old play Pandulph peeld Pembrooke Peter Philip Plantaginet pleaſe Pope Princes Prophet proud Raigne of King Richard III Richards Sonne Robert Fauconbridge Rome Salisbury ſay Sc.i Sc.iv Sc.xii scene ſee Shakespeare SHAKSPERE SHAKSPERE'S ſhall shalt Sire ſmall Soueraigne ſuch tell terroz thall thee theſe thine thou art thy Father Troublesome Raigne vnto vpon warres
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Page xv - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page iii - The first and Second Part / of the / Troublesome Raigne of / John King of England. / with the Discouerie of King Richard Cordelions base Sonne / Vulgarly named, the Bastard Fawconbridge ; / Also, / The Death of King John at S-winstead Abbey. / As they were (sundry times) lately acted / by the Queenes Maiesties Players. / Written by W. Sh.
Page iii - Six Old Plays, on which Shakspeare founded his Measure for Measure. Comedy of Errors. Taming the Shrew. King John.
Page x - Methinks I hear a hollow echo sound, That Philip is the son unto a King : The whistling leaves upon the trembling trees Whistle in concert I am Richard's son...
Page x - Filius : Birds in their flight make music with their wings, Filling the air with glory of my birth : Birds, bubbles, leaves, and mountains' echo, all Ring in mine ears, that I am Richard's son.
Page iii - TWENTY OF THE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE, being the whole Number printed in Quarto during his Life-Time, or before the Restoration, Collated where there were different Copies, and published from the Originals, By George Steevens, Esq., in Four Volumes.
Page xvii - ... which made up the worst of the Plantagenets; had he dramatised the grand scene of the signing of the Charter, and shown vividly the gloom and horror which overhung the excommunicated land; had he painted John's last despairing struggles against rebels and invaders, as he has given us the fiery end of Macbeth's life — we might have had another Macbeth, another Richard, who would by his terrible personality have welded the play together, and carried us along breathless through his scenes of successive...
Page x - Or whence proceed these fumes of majesty ? Methinks I hear a hollow echo sound, That Philip is the son unto a King : The whistling leaves upon the trembling trees, Whistle in...
Page x - Thy father's land cannot maintain these thoughts, These thoughts are far unfitting Fauconbridge: And well they may; for why this mounting mind Doth soar too high to stoop to Fauconbridge. Why, how now? Knowest thou where thou art?
Page viii - It is a very noticeable difference between the two plays, that while in the elder we find no systematic division (except that into two rather unequal halves), in the later Shakespeare — who I believe always paid great attention to the construction of his acts — has made the inter-acts divide the story into five complete and symmetrical parts. Act i. gives us the French king's challenge and its acceptance by John, with . the story of the bastard Philip and his brother. Act ii. shows the commencement...