{"product_id":"king-john-henry-viii-isbn-9780812969399","title":"King John \u0026 Henry VIII","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Mad world, mad kings, mad composition!”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—King John\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In one volume, eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide fresh new editions of two classic histories: \u003ci\u003eHenry VIII\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKing John\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTHIS VOLUME ALSO INCLUDES MORE THAN A HUNDRED PAGES OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e • original Introductions to \u003ci\u003eHenry VIII \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e King John\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e • incisive scene-by-scene synopses and analyses with vital facts about the works\u003cbr\u003e • commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers\u003cbr\u003e • photographs of key RSC productions\u003cbr\u003e • an overview of Shakespeare’s theatrical career and chronology of his plays\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.“A remarkable edition, one that makes Shakespeare’s extraordinary accomplishment more vivid than ever.”—James Shapiro, professor, Columbia University, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eA Year in the Life of Shakespeare: 1599\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A feast of literary and historical information.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e (1564–1616) was a poet, playwright, and actor who is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers in the history of the English language. Often referred to as the Bard of Avon, Shakespeare's vast body of work includes comedic, tragic, and historical plays; poems; and 154 sonnets. His dramatic works have been translated into every major language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Bate\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance literature at the University of Warwick. Widely known as a critic, award-winning biographer, and broadcaster, Bate is the author of several books on Shakespeare. He is also the principal editor of the Modern Library’s and Royal Shakespeare Company’s highly acclaimed \u003ci\u003eWilliam Shakespeare: Complete Works.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Rasmussen\u003c\/b\u003e, a professor of English at the University of Nevada, is one of today's leading textual experts on Shakespeare.Act 1 Scene 1 running scene 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter King John, Queen Elinor, Pembroke, Essex and Salisbury, with the Chatillon of France\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKING JOHN Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHATILLON Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn my behaviour, to the majesty,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe borrowed majesty, of England here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQUEEN ELINOR A strange beginning: 'borrowed majesty'!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKING JOHN Silence, good mother: hear the embassy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHATILLON Philip of France, in right and true behalf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf thy deceasèd brother Geoffrey's son,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful claim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo this fair island and the territories -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo Ireland, Poitiers, Anjou, Touraine, Maine -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesiring thee to lay aside the sword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich sways usurpingly these several titles,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd put the same into young Arthur's hand,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThy nephew, and right royal sovereign.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKING JOHN What follows if we disallow of this?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHATILLON The proud control of fierce and bloody war,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo enforce these rights so forcibly withheld-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKING JOHN Here have we war for war and blood for blood,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eControlment for controlment: so answer France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHATILLON Then take my king's defiance from my mouth,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe furthest limit of my embassy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKING JOHN Bear mine to him, and so depart in peace:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBe thou as lightning in the eyes of France;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor ere thou canst report, I will be there:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe thunder of my cannon shall be heard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo hence: be thou the trumpet of our wrath\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd sullen presage of your own decay.-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn honourable conduct let him have: To Pembroke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePembroke, look to't.- Farewell, Chatillon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExeunt Chatillon and Pembroke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQUEEN ELINOR?What now, my son? Have I not ever said\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow that ambitious Constance would not cease\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTill she had kindled France and all the world,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUpon the right and party of her son?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis might have been prevented and made whole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith very easy arguments of love,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich now the manage of two kingdoms must\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith fearful bloody issue arbitrate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKING JOHN Our strong possession and our right for us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQUEEN ELINOR?Your strong possession much more Aside to John than your right,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOr else it must go wrong with you and me:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo much my conscience whispers in your ear,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich none but heaven, and you, and I, shall hear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter a Sheriff He whispers to Essex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESSEX My liege, here is the strangest controversy,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCome from the country to be judged by you,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat e'er I heard: shall I produce the men?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKING JOHN Let them approach.- [Exit Sheriff]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur abbeys and our priories shall pay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis expeditious charge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter Robert Falconbridge and Philip [the Bastard]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat men are you?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBASTARD Your faithful subject I, a gentleman,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Northamptonshire and eldest son,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs I suppose, to Robert Falconbridge,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA soldier, by the honour-giving hand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf Coeur-de-lion, knighted in the field.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKING JOHN What art thou?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eROBERT The son and heir to that same Falconbridge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKING JOHN Is that the elder, and art thou the heir?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou came not of one mother then, it seems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBASTARD Most certain of one mother, mighty king,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat is well known, and, as I think, one father:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut for the certain knowledge of that truth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI put you o'er to heaven, and to my mother;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf that I doubt, as all men's children may.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQUEEN ELINOR Out on thee, rude man! Thou dost shame thy mother\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd wound her honour with this diffidence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBASTARD I, madam? No, I have no reason for it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat is my brother's plea and none of mine,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe which if he can prove, a pops me out\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt least from fair five hundred pound a year:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeaven guard my mother's honour and my land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKING JOHN A good blunt fellow.- Why, being younger Aside \/\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eborn, To Bastard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoth he lay claim to thine inheritance?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBASTARD I know not why, except to get the land:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut once he slandered me with bastardy:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut whe'er I be as true begot or no,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat still I lay upon my mother's head:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut that I am as well begot, my liege -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFair fall the bones that took the pains for me -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompare our faces, and be judge yourself\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf old Sir Robert did beget us both,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd were our father and this son like him:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eO old Sir Robert, father, on my knee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI give heaven thanks I was not like to thee!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKING JOHN Why, what a madcap hath heaven lent us here!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQUEEN ELINOR He hath a trick of Coeur-de-lion's face:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe accent of his tongue affecteth him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDo you not read some tokens of my son\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the large composition of this man?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKING JOHN Mine eye hath well examined his parts,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd finds them perfect Richard.- Sirrah, speak, To Robert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat doth move you to claim your brother's land?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBASTARD Because he hath a half-face like my father.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith half that face would he have all my land -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA half-faced groat - five hundred pound a year!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eROBERT My gracious liege, when that my father lived,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYour brother did employ my father much-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBASTARD Well, sir, by this you cannot get my land:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYour tale must be how he employed my mother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eROBERT And once dispatched him in an embassy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo Germany, there with the emperor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo treat of high affairs touching that time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTh'advantage of his absence took the king,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd in the meantime sojourned at my father's;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere how he did prevail, I shame to speak.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut truth is truth: large lengths of seas and shores\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween my father and my mother lay,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs I have heard my father speak himself,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen this same lusty gentleman was got.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUpon his death-bed he by will bequeathed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis lands to me, and took it on his death\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat this my mother's son was none of his;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd if he were, he came into the world\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFull fourteen weeks before the course of time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen, good my liege, let me have what is mine,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy father's land, as was my father's will.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKING JOHN Sirrah, your brother is legitimate:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYour father's wife did after wedlock bear him:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd if she did play false, the fault was hers,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich fault lies on the hazards of all husbands\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat marry wives. Tell me, how if my brother,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho, as you say, took pains to get this son,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHad of your father claimed this son for his?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn sooth, good friend, your father might have kept\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis calf, bred from his cow, from all the world:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn sooth he might. Then if he were my brother's,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy brother might not claim him, nor your father,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeing none of his, refuse him: this concludes,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy mother's son did get your father's heir,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYour father's heir must have your father's land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eROBERT Shall then my father's will be of no force\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo dispossess that child which is not his?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBASTARD Of no more force to dispossess me, sir,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThan was his will to get me, as I think.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQUEEN ELINOR?Whether hadst thou rather be: a Falconbridge,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd like thy brother to enjoy thy land,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOr the reputed son of Coeur-de-lion,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLord of thy presence, and no land beside?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBASTARD Madam, an if my brother had my shape\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd I had his, Sir Robert's his like him,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd if my legs were two such riding-rods,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy arms, such eel-skins stuffed, my face so thin,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat in mine ear I durst not stick a rose,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLest men should say, 'Look, where three-farthings goes',\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd to his shape were heir to all this land,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWould I might never stir from off this place,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI would give it every foot to have this face:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt would not be Sir Nob in any case.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQUEEN ELINOR?I like thee well: wilt thou forsake thy fortune,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBequeath thy land to him and follow me?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am a soldier and now bound to France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBASTARD Brother, take you my land, I'll take my chance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYour face hath got five hundred pound a year,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet sell your face for five pence and 'tis dear.-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMadam, I'll follow you unto the death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQUEEN ELINOR Nay, I would have you go before me thither.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBASTARD Our country manners give our betters way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKING JOHN What is thy name?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBASTARD Philip, my liege, so is my name begun,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilip, good old sir Robert's wife's eldest son.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKING JOHN From henceforth bear his name whose form thou bear'st:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKneel thou down Philip, but rise more great, He knights the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArise sir Richard, and Plantagenet. Bastard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBASTARD Brother by th'mother's side, give me your hand:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy father gave me honour, yours gave land:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow blessèd be the hour by night or day,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen I was got, Sir Robert was away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQUEEN ELINOR The very spirit of Plantagenet:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am thy grandam, Richard: call me so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBASTARD Madam, by chance, but not by truth: what though?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomething about a little from the right,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn at the window, or else o'er the hatch:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho dares not stir by day must walk by night,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd have is have, however men do catch:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNear or far off, well won is still well shot,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd I am I, howe'er I was begot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKING JOHN Go, Falconbridge, now hast thou thy desire:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA landless knight makes thee a landed squire.-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCome, madam, and come, Richard, we must speed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor France, for France, for it is more than need.Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen; RSC","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302152098021,"sku":"NP9780812969399","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780812969399.jpg?v=1767730746","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/king-john-henry-viii-isbn-9780812969399","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}