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King John

William Shakespeare

Form
Form Poetry Collection
Year
Year 1700
Pages
Pages 290

The one thing everyone knows about King John never appears in his play: no Magna Carta, no barons at Runnymede. What Shakespeare wanted instead was a small room, a boy, and a man sent with hot irons to put out his eyes.

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