King John schemes to hold his crown against a French-backed rival claimant and the Pope's excommunication, and orders his young nephew Arthur's death to secure it, unraveling his own reign in guilt and rebellion.
Books that mention King John (10)
The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper: “So foul a sky clears not without a storm. --King John.”
The Tragic Muse by Henry James: “He recognised one of the great tirades of Shakespeare's Constance and saw she had just begun the magnificent scene at the beginning of the third act of _King John_, in which the passionate, injured mother and widow sweeps in wild organ-tones the entire scale of her irony and wrath.”
The Antiquary by Walter Scott: “Bell, book, and candle, shall not drive me back, If gold and silver beckon to come on. King John.”
Ulysses by James Joyce: “His boyson's death is the deathscene of young Arthur in King John”
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad: Epigraph: “So foul a sky clears not without a storm.” --SHAKESPEARE
The Island Pharisees by John Galsworthy: Epigraph: "'But this is a worshipful society' KING JOHN"
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin: “Three months after Willie’s death, while reading aloud a passage from Shakespeare’s King John in which Constance grieves over the death of her son, Lincoln paused; he turned to a nearby army officer and said: “Did you ever dream of some lost friend, and feel that you were”
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe: “Does shew the mood of a much-troubled breast. KING JOHN”
The Abbot by Walter Scott: “Poison'd--ill fare!--dead, forsook, cast off!-- KING JOHN.”