King John (eBook)
96 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-79007-7 (ISBN)
Amid a backdrop of war, conspiracy, and murder, this historical play depicts the troubled reign of King John, who ruled England from 1199 to 1216. Shakespeare's most enigmatic king struggles with the shifting loyalties of his nobles as well as threats from his covetous heirs and the burdens of his own conscience. The play, which abounds in battles and betrayals, explores issues of politics, inheritance, and legitimacy. John's problems are threefold: he has usurped the throne from the rightful heir, his nephew Arthur; his relationship with the Vatican is troubled; and he is highly unpopular with his own subjects. Shakespeare's portrayal of the despised monarch finds a more heroic figure in Sir Richard Plantagenet, an illegitimate son of Richard I. The Bastard, as John's loyal nephew is known, forms the moral center of the play as well as a source of irreverent humor and honesty. A cynical play about power struggles, King John offers a remarkably contemporary mix of history and ironic commentary, balanced in equal measures by elements of tragedy and satire.
"He was not of an age, but for all time," declared Ben Jonson of his contemporary William Shakespeare (1564–1616). Jonson's praise is especially prescient, since at the turn of the 17th century Shakespeare was but one of many popular London playwrights and none of his dramas were printed in his lifetime. The reason so many of his works survive is because two of his actor friends, with the assistance of Jonson, assembled and published the First Folio edition of 1623.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.1.2015 |
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Reihe/Serie | Dover Thrift Editions | Dover Thrift Editions: Plays |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 130 x 130 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | 1199 • 1216 • angiers • Aquitaine • Arden • arthur of brittany • austria • bastards • battlements • Blanche • books on angiers • books on aquitaine • books on bastards • books on battlements • books on blanches • books on british dramas • books on british histories • books on british literatures • books on british monarchies • books on chatillon • books on classics paperbacks • books on crusades • books on dauphin • books on earlier plays • books on effronteries • books on eleanor • books on elizabethan ages • books on english lords • books on english thrones • books on famous plays • books on folger • books on historic mysteries • books on holy lands • books on irons • books on lear • books on magna cartas • books on nobles • books on oxford worlds • books on pelican shakespeares • books on quartos • books on reigns • books on single lines • books on undeads • books on usurpers • books on western halves • books on yales • Britain • British Drama • British history • British Literature • British Monarchy • Chatillon • classics paperback • crusade • dauphin • earlier plays • effrontery • Eleanor • Elizabethan Age • endorses • english lords • english throne • falconbridge • famous plays • folger • France • geoffrey • historic mysteries • history plays • Holy Land • III • illegitimate • irons • Jerusalem • john king john • King Henry VI • Lear • legitimate heir • louis vii • Magna Carta • Nobles • org wiki • oxford world • papal • pelican shakespeare • Phillip II • Pope • Quarto • rarely performed • red hot • registered • reign • rightful heir • Shakespeare Plays • single line • Undead • usurped • usurper • western half • Yale • zombie-loving |
ISBN-10 | 0-486-79007-X / 048679007X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-486-79007-7 / 9780486790077 |
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