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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT II. SCENE I—France. Before the Walls of Anglers. Enter on one side, the Archduke Of Austria, and Forces; on the other, Philip, King of France, and Forces; Lewis, Constance, Arthur, and Attendants. Lew. Before A ngiers well met, brave Austria.— "Arthur,' that great forerunner of thy blood, Richard, that robbed the lion of his heart, And fought the holy wars in Palestine, By this brave duke came early to his grave;2 And, for amends to his posterity, At our importance 3 hither is he come To spread his colours, boy, in thy behalf, And to rebuke the usurpation Of thy unnatural uncle, English John: Embrace him, love him, give him welcome hither. Arth. God shall forgive you Coeur-de-lion s death Tin, rather that you give his offspring life, Shadowing their right under your wings of war. 1 Arthur.] This is a nominative of direct address. 2 By thin brave duke, $c. This is not true. Leopold V., archduke of Austria, discovered and seized the disguised Cceur-de-Lion in Vienna, and afterwards gave him tip to the Emperor Henry VI., by whom he was imprisoned in a fortress at Worms; but Leopold died five years before Richard. 3 Importance Importunity. I give you welcome with a powerless hand, But with a heart full of unstained love: Welcome before the gates of Anglers, duke. Lew. A noble boy ! who would not do thee right! Aust. Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous kiss, As seal to this indenture of my love— That to my home I will no more return, Till Anglers, and the right thou hast in France, Together with that pale, that white-faced shore,'.— Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tidus, And coops from other lands her islanders, Even till that England, hedged in with the main, That water-walled bulwark, still secure2 And confident from foreign purposes, Eve...

King John is a History written by English playwright William Shakespeare, who is widely considered to be the greatest writer of the English language. King John is a play that focuses on the life and death of King John. King John is an important work of William Shakespeares, and is highly recommended for fans of his works as well as those discovering his plays for the first time.

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The play begins as a French ambassador enters King John's court. His request is dramatic, the ambassador demands on behalf of King Philip of France that John renounce his throne. King Philip believes his nephew Arthur has claim to the throne that King John occupies. While John presides over a dispute over inheritance between Robert Faulconbridge and Philip the Bastard, his older brother, it becomes evident that Philip the Bastard is the first illegitimate son of King Richard I and therefore John's half-brother.

King John (+Biography and Bibliography) (Glossy Cover Finish): The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatizes the reign of King John of England (ruled 1199–1216), son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and father of Henry III of England. It is believed to have been written in the mid-1590s but was not published until it appeared in the First Folio in 1623.

Under the rule of King John, England is forced into war when the French challenge the legitimacy of John's claim to the throne and determine to install his nephew Arthur in his place. But political principles, hypocritically flaunted, are soon forgotten, as the French and English kings form an alliance based on cynical self-interest. And as the desire to cling to power dominates England's paranoid and weak-willed king, his country is threatened with disaster.

King John of England is pitted against the united powers of France, Brittany, Austria, and the Papacy. Will England be destroyed by his fatal indecision? As alliances are made, broken, and remade, the paranoid and erratic John reveals his weakness and reliance on those around him - including his powerful mother, Queen Elinor, and Faulconbridge, the cynical and witty bastard son of the dead King Richard I. In this early history play, King John is played by Michael Feast, the Bastard by Michael Maloney, and Constance by Eileen Atkins.