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The Life and Death of King John (facs. 1st Folio 1623)

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 is a facsimile edition of the play from the First Folio edition of 1623.

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Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Folio Edition 1623 from the Chatsworth copy in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. with an Introduction and Census of Copies by Sidney Lee (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1902).

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The text is in the public domain.

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Facsimile PDF This is a facsimile or image-based PDF made from scans of the original book. 2.31 MB

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