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King John (Theatre)
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As the play is Older Than Steam and based on historical events, and as most twists in Shakespeare's plots are now widely known, all spoilers on this page are unmarked.A play by William Shakespeare, thought to have been created somewhere between 1596 and 1598. It follows the life of King John of England, in his war against his rival, Phillip II of France, to his eventual death at the hands of a treacherous monk.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Though today one of Shakespeare's more obscure plays, and generally considered one of his lesser works by those who do know of it, King John was one of his most popular plays in the nineteenth century. It has been staged on Broadway four times — but not once in the last century. A brief silent extract of John's death-scene, played by Herbert Beerbohm Tree in 1899, is often cited as the first Shakespeare play ever filmed.It is one of Shakespeare's four plays to be written entirely in verse, all of which are of the "History" genre; the others are Richard II, Henry VI Part 1, and Henry VI Part 3. | |
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Anachronism Stew: Several instances in the play, notably when King John makes a reference to England's cannons, which were not actually fielded until well over a hundred years after John's death. | |
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Anti-Hero: King John himself. Contending with finicky noblemen at home, enterprising relatives with ambitions of coronation and control, foreign armies, and a heavily influential Vatican, John is completely overwhelmed. In spite of arguably having the military advantage over his foes, the events around him cause him to behave with irrational brashness: he orders the execution of his nephew in vague language, later rescinding the order once he realizes that popular support for such an action is nil; takes his army to continental Europe to battle France and Austria for control of a small départment (which he later offers just to give away), leaving England vulnerable to attack from a swift Franco invasion at the behest of the Pope; and he royally pisses off the church in an attempt to levy unfair taxes on the church, on account of which a priest poisons him. | |
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