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Half Title\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nDedication\nContents\nGeneral editor’s preface\nGeneral editors’ preface to the revised editions\nPreface\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\n I\n Beginnings to 1790\n II\n Malone to Furness\n III\n 1920 to the Present\n Notes\nSupplementary introduction\n I\n King John and The Troublesome Raigne\n II\n Religion in King John\n III\n Constance, Elinor and gender criticism\n IV\n The Bastard\n V\n Miscellaneous criticism\n VI\n Editions, critical surveys and overviews\nChapter 1: Edmond Malone, commentary on King John: 1790\nChapter 2: Joseph Ritson, response to Malone: 1792\nChapter 3: George Steevens, response to Malone: 1793\nChapter 4: George Chalmers, on the date of King John: 1799\nChapter 5: Elizabeth Inchbald, character and characterization: 1808\nChapter 6: August Wilhelm von Schlegel, personality and politics: 1815\nChapter 7: Nathan Drake, Shakespeare’s art of characterization: 1817\nChapter 8: William Hazlitt, history and character: 1817\nChapter 9: William Oxberry, prefatory remarks on King John: 1819\nChapter 10: Augustine Skottowe, The Troublesome Raigne and King John: 1824\nChapter 11: Samuel Weller Singer, introduction to King John: 1826\nChapter 12: George Daniel, prefatory remarks on King John: 1826\nChapter 13: James Boaden, Sarah Siddons as Constance: 1827\nChapter 14: Anna Brownell Jameson, the character of Constance: 1832\nChapter 15: Thomas Campbell, Sarah Siddons on Constance: 1834\nChapter 16: Thomas Campbell, general remarks on King John: 1838\nChapter 17: Thomas Peregrine Courtenay, King John and history: 1838\nChapter 18: Charles Knight, The Pictorial Edition of King John: 1838\nChapter 19: George Fletcher, the female roles in King John: 1843\n 1. CHARACTER OF THE LADY CONSTANCE.\n 2. ACTING OF THE LADY CONSTANCE, QUEEN ELINOR, THE LADY BLANCH, AND LADY FAULCONBRIDGE; BY MISS HELEN FAUCIT, MISS ELLIS, MISS FAIRBROTHER, AND MRS. SELBY.\nChapter 20: Joseph Hunter, editorial corrections in King John: 1845\n KING JOHN\nChapter 21: Hermann Ulrici, ‘history’, church, and state in King John\nChapter 22: Gulian Crommelin Verplanck, critical remarks on King John: 1847\nChapter 23: Hartley Coleridge, critical notes on King John: 1851\n KING JOHN.\n ON THE HISTORICAL PLAYS.\n ELINOR AND CONSTANCE.\n ACT II., SCENE I. [the scolding match]\n CHARACTER OF KING JOHN.\n ACT III., SCENE III.\n LATER SCENES OF THE PLAY.\nChapter 24: François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, history, art, and character in King John: 1852\nChapter 25: Henry Norman Hudson, introduction to King John: 1852\nChapter 26: Henry Reed, history and character: 1855\nChapter 27: William Watkiss Lloyd, King John and nationalism: 1856\nChapter 28: John Charles Bucknill, the madness of Constance: 1859\n CONSTANCE\nChapter 29: Richard Grant White, background and critical notes to King John: 1859\nChapter 30: Charles Cowden Clarke, characterization, craft, and the philosophy of war: 1863\nChapter 31: Georg Gottfried Gervinus, politics, ethics, and chararacter: 1863\nChapter 32: John Abraham Heraud, the politics of national interest: 1865\nChapter 33: Henry Giles, the transcendent sorrow of Constance: 1868\nChapter 34: Henry Thomas Hall, national interest and personal loyalty: 1871\nChapter 35: Richard Simpson, King John and contemporary politics: 1874\n I. KING JOHN.\nChapter 36: Edward Dowden, the baseness of John: 1875\nChapter 37: Algernon Charles Swinburne, Shakespeare’s art of characterization: 1875–6\nChapter 38: John Weiss, Constance and the nature of woman: 1876\nChapter 39: Frederick James Furnivall, King John, Richard III, and character: 1877\nChapter 40: Denton Jaques Snider, the theme of nationality\nChapter 41: George Wilkes, King John and Roman Catholicism: 1877\nChapter 42: Frederick Gard Fleay, literary and historical background to King John: 1878\n SOURCES OF THE PLOT.\n [FROM] DISTRIBUTION OF THE PARTS\n ON THE NAMES OF THE DRAMATIS PERSONÆ AS THEY ARE PREFIXED TO THE SPEECHES.\n [From] METRE\n PROBABLE REVIVALS OF THE PLAY.\nChapter 43: Edward Rose, Shakespeare’s adaptation of The Troublesome Raigne: 1878\nChapter 44: George Henry Calvert, high praise for King John: 1879\nChapter 45: Henry John Hardy, on Pandulph and history: 1887\nChapter 46: Henry Morley, on commodity: 1887\nChapter 47: Francis Albert Marshall, a balanced assessment of King John: 1888\nChapter 48: Hiram Corson, on Constance and Arthur: 1889\nChapter 49: Walter Horatio Pater, kingship, personality, and the human condition: 1889\nChapter 50: Oliver Elton, the artistic excellence of King John: 1890\nChapter 51: James Appleton Morgan, The Troublesome Raigne and King John: 1892\nChapter 52: Louis Lewes, on Constance, Elinor, and Blanch: 1894\nChapter 53: Beverley Ellison Warner, historical character and dramatic character: 1894\nChapter 54: Barrett Wendell, the oddities of King John: 1894\nChapter 55: Frederick Samuel Boas, on the principal characters: 1896\nChapter 56: Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, Shakespeare’s uneven artistry: 1898\nChapter 57: Henry Sebastian Bowden, Shakespeare’s Roman Catholicism: 1899\nChapter 58: Charles Harold Herford, Shakespeare’s maturing artistry: 1899\nChapter 59: Hamilton Wright Mabie, King John as a transitional play: 1900\nChapter 60: George Charles Moore Smith, weaknesses and strengths of King John: 1900\nChapter 61: J. Lytelton Etty, the character of John: 1901\nChapter 62: Felix Emanuel Schelling, Shakespeare and Davenport: 1902\nChapter 63: Richard Green Moulton, the pendulum of history in King John: 1903\nChapter 64: Edmund Kerchever Chambers, the formlessness of King John: 1906\nChapter 65: George Pierce Baker, Shakespeare’s dramatic development: 1907\nChapter 66: Henry Charles Beeching, on the religion of Shakespeare: 1907\nChapter 67: Richard Garnett, introduction to King John: 1907\nChapter 68: Ivor Bertram John, King John and Richard II: 1907\nChapter 69: Charlotte Endymion Porter, the belittling of John: 1910\nChapter 70: Frank Harris, Constance and Shakespeare’s shrewish wife: 1911\nChapter 71: John Edward Masefield, on treachery and ‘Englishness’: 1911\nChapter 72: Stopford Augustus Brooke, on John, Faulconbridge, and Constance: 1913\nChapter 73: John James Munro, Shakespeare’s use of The Troublesome Raigne: 1913\nChapter 74: James Brander Matthews, the artistic flaws of King John: 1913\nChapter 75: Horace Howard Furness, Jr., on the Bastard, John, and the play: 1919\nNotes\n 1. EDMOND MALONE\n 2. JOSEPH RITSON\n 3. GEORGE STEEVENS\n 4. GEORGE CHALMERS\n 6. AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL\n 7. NATHAN DRAKE\n 8. WILLIAM HAZLITT\n 9. WILLIAM OXBERRY\n 10. AUGUSTINE SKOTTOWE\n 11. SAMUEL WELLER SINGER\n 14. ANNA BROWNELL JAMESON\n 15. THOMAS CAMPBELL\n 16. THOMAS CAMPBELL\n 17. THOMAS PEREGRINE COURTENAY\n 18. CHARLES KNIGHT\n 19. GEORGE FLETCHER\n 20. JOSEPH HUNTER\n 21. HERMANN ULRICI\n 22. GULIAN CROMMELIN VERPLANCK\n 24. FRANçOIS PIERRE GUILLAUME GUIZOT\n 25. HENRY NORMAN HUDSON\n 26. HENRY REED\n 27. WILLIAM WATKISS LLOYD\n 28. JOHN CHARLES BUCKNILL\n 29. RICHARD GRANT WHITE\n 30. CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE\n 31. GEORG GOTTFRIED GERVINUS\n 34. HENRY THOMAS HALL\n 35. RICHARD SIMPSON\n 38. JOHN WEISS\n 39. FREDERICK JAMES FURNIVALL\n 40. DENTON JAQUES SNIDER\n 41. GEORGE WILKES\n 42. FREDERICK GARD FLEAY\n 43. EDWARD ROSE\n 45. HENRY JOHN HARDY\n 48. HIRAM CORSON\n 49. WALTER HORATIO PATER\n 51. JAMES APPLETON MORGAN\n 52. LOUIS LEWES\n 54. BARRETT WENDELL\n 56. GEORG COHEN MORRIS BRANDES\n 57. HENRY SEBASTIAN BOWDEN\n 58. CHARLES HAROLD HERFORD\n 60. GEORGE CHARLES MOORE SMITH\n 61. J. LYTELTON ETTY\n 62. FELIX EMANUEL SCHELLING\n 63. RICHARD GREEN MOULTON\n 65. GEORGE PIERCE BAKER\n 66. HENRY CHARLES BEECHING\n 67. RICHARD GARNETT\n 73. JOHN JAMES MUNRO\n 74. JAMES BRANDER MATTHEWS\nA select bibliography\n (A) Histories of literary criticism and background studies\n (B) Editions and playtexts\n (C) Criticism and other secondary works\nIndex