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From Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Hazlitt, William |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Description | The Troublesome Reign is a Chronicle Play exploiting the frivolity and the treachery of the French and picturing John as a king more good than bad, the righteous champion of Protestantism against papal tyranny yet not virtuous enough to be God's agent of definitive reformation. It is interesting that the first part of Troublesome Reign corresponds to two-thirds of Shakespeare's play and the whole of the second part to only the last third. Thus a massive scene in the Troublesome Reign of nearly three hundred lines, showing the solemn banding of the English nobles against John at Bury St. Edmunds, is, as a scene, quite omitted in Shakespeare. There is a good deal of competently dignified verse, some amazing pieces of rant, prose passages suggesting garbled and abbreviated verse, pieces of really imaginative writing, and again and again solid and sensible writing dropping into verse that does not sound too bad and yet which does not quite make full sense. Book Name: King John and Henry VIII |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2014-0-36720-3&isbn=9781315724560&format=googlePreviewPdf |
| Ending Page | 69 |
| Page Count | 5 |
| Starting Page | 65 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315724560-7 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2015-04-10 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: King John and Henry Viii Literary Studies Shakespeare Writing Verse John Good Bad Pieces Troublesome Reign |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
