Title page from The Life and Death of King John

Part of: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (The Oxford Shakespeare) The Life and Death of King John

The contest for the crown at the center of King John is a bloody and violent one, with a surprising hero in the figure of the illegitimate Richard Plantagenet. This edition comes from the 1916 Oxford University Press edition of all of Shakespeare’s plays and poems.

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