Publisher's Synopsis
A critical edition of Shakespeare's play "The Life and Death of King John", with a wide-ranging introduction, concentrating on the play's relevance to Elizabethan political issues and on the role played in it by women, by legal concepts and practices, and by the family.;The printing of the play in the First Folio (1623) is studied, there are illustrations of the play in performance and an account of its stage history. The annotation pays special attention to the play's language and staging.
