Henry Frowde Oxford University Press

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHNINTRODUCTIONThe editors of the first folio arranged the English historical plays of Shakespeare in the order of the successive reigns of kings, and therefore King John is placed first and King Henry VIII last. No quarto of King John had appeared, and it has the...

INTRODUCTION The Jacobite enthusiasm of the eighteenth century, particularly during the rebellion of 1745, afforded a theme, perhaps the finest that could be selected for fictitious composition, founded upon real or probable incident. This civil war and its remarkable events were remembered by...