King John

King John Criticism

• King John (Vol. 56)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Historical Representation
    • King John and the Drama of History
    • King John and Historiography
    • The Historiographic Methodology of King John
  • Criticism: Culture And Politics
    • ‘The Sequence of Posterity’: Shakespeare's King John and the Succession Controversy
    • The Scribbled Form of Authority in King John
    • ‘He Is But a Bastard to the Time’: Status and Service in The Troublesome Raigne of John and Shakespeare's King John
    • Renaissance Emblems of Death and Shakespeare's King John
  • Criticism: Transitional Aspects Of King John
    • King John: ‘Perfect Richard’ versus ‘This Old World’
    • King John and The Troublesome Raigne: Sources, Structure, Sequence
    • Mingling Vice and ‘Worthiness’ in King John
• King John (Vol. 68)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • Shakespeare's King John and Its Source: Coherence, Pattern, and Vision
    • Shakespeare's Satirical History: A Reading of King John
    • ‘Confound Their Skill in Covetousness’: The Ambivalent Perspective of Shakespeare's King John
    • Stalking ‘Strong Possession’ in King John
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Moral Proportion and Fatalism in Shakespeare: King John, and Conclusion
    • Bastinado for the Bastard?
    • ‘I Trust I May Not Trust Thee’: Women's Visions of the World in Shakespeare's King John
    • King John and Embarrassing Women
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Review of King John
    • Review of King John
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Truth in King John
    • The King's One Body: Unceremonial Kingship in King John
    • Illegitimate Subjects: Performing Bastardy in King John
• King John (Vol. 78)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • Between Tetralogies: King John as Transition
    • King John
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Shakespeare and the Double Image of King John
    • ‘Innocent Prate’: King John and Shakespeare's Children
    • Coming Home: The Political Settlement in Shakespeare's King John
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Review of King John
    • P-Shaw
    • Summer Shakespeare in Britain
    • Commodity's Slaves
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Imagery of Disorderly Motion in King John: A Thematic Gloss
    • Antimetabolic King John
• King John (Vol. 88)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • King John and The Troublesome Raigne: A Reexamination
    • Introduction to The New Cambridge Shakespeare: King John
    • Introduction to Shakespeare in Performance: King John
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Some Thoughts about King John.
    • Cardinal Pandulph and the ‘Curse of Rome.’
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Review of King John
    • Review of King John
    • Review of King John
    • Review of King John
    • Review of King John
    • Review of King John
  • Criticism: Themes
    • The Anomalous Case of King John
    • The Troublesome Ending of King John
    • Shakespeare and the Doctrine of Monarchy in King John
    • ‘Calm Words Folded Up in Smoke’: Propaganda and Spectator Response in Shakespeare's King John
    • ‘Cry, havoc!’ King John and the Darkling Plain
• King John and The Troublesome Raigne: Sources, Structure, Sequence
• The Sequence of Posterity: Shakespeare's King John and the Succession Controversy
  • Introduction
  • "By Will Bequeath'D": The Monarch's Power To Fix The Succession By Will
  • "Stranger Blood": The Capacity Of A Foreigner To Inherit Land Or Crown
  • "Speak, Citizens, For England": The Process Of Determining The Successor
• The Limits of Modernity in Shakespeare's King John
• King John (Vol. 41)
  • Introduction
  • Characterization
    • Dramatic Perspective in King John
    • Patriarchal History and Female Subversion
  • Politics
    • King John: A Study in Subversion and Containment
    • Politics and Conscience
  • Sources
    • Introduction to King John
    • "King John" and Historiography
    • "King John" and "The Troublesome Raigne:" Sources, Structure, Sequence
  • Structure
    • The Road to Swinstead Abbey: A Study of the Sense and Structure of King John
    • Commodity and Honour in King John
    • Richard's Divided Heritage in King John
• He Is But a Bastard to the Time: Status and Service in The Troublesome Raigne of John and Shakespeare's King John
  • Introduction
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  • Conclusions
• Further Reading