FIRST ISSUE OF THIS EDITION 1906 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1913 CHRONOLOGY OF THE PLAYS. I. THE EPOCH OF HIS EARLY WORK, 1591-1593. II. THE EPOCH OF HIS MATURING ART-THE PERIOD OF THE GREAT COMEDIES AND THE "HISTORIES," 1594-1601. III. THE EPOCH OF HIS MATURE ART-THE PERIOD OF THE GREAT PROBLEM PLAYS, 1602-1609. IV.--THE EPOCH OF REPOSEFUL CONTEMPLATION, 1610-1611, Cymbeline, 1610. The Tempest, 1611. The Winter's Tale, 1611. Plays completed by others after his Retirement. Cardenio, 1611. Henry VIII., 1612. Two Noble Kinsmen, 1612. bridge. and other Attendants. QUEEN ELINOR, mother to King John. BLANCH of Spain, niece to King John. Lords, Citizens of Angiers, Sheriff, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, Messengers. SCENE: Partly in England, and partly in France. ACT I-SCENE I King John's Palace. Enter King John, Queen Elinor, Pembroke, Essex, Salisbury, and others, with Chatillon. K. John. Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us? The borrowed majesty, of England here. Eli. A strange beginning: 'borrowed majesty !' To Ireland, Poictiers, Anjou, Touraine, Maine, Which sways usurpingly these several titles, K. John. Here have we war for war and blood for blood, K. John. Bear mine to him, and so depart in peace: Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France; [Exeunt Chatillon and Pembroke. Eli. What now, my son! have I not ever said This might have been prevented and made whole Which now the manage of two kingdoms must K. John. Our strong possession and our right for us. Essex. My liege, here is the strangest controversy K. John. Let them approach. Our abbeys and our priories shall pay This expedition's charge. Enter Robert Faulconbridge, and Philip his bastard brother. What men are you? Bast. Your faithful subject I, a gentleman Rob. The son and heir to that same Faulconbridge. I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother: Eli. Out on thee, rude man! thou dost shame thy mother |