“Mad world, mad kings, mad composition!” —King John In one volume, eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide fresh new editi

“Mad world, mad kings, mad composition!” —King John In one volume, eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide fresh new editi

The New Kittredge Shakespeare King John and Henry VIII offers the text of both plays, and glosses, as prepared by William Kittredge for his Complete Works of Wi

These two history plays—one written in the early days of Shakespeare’s career and one at the very end—are alike in the complexity of their political visio