num_pages: 1
description: [Full-Cast Audio Theater Dramatization. In this early history play, King John is played by Michael Feast, the Bastard by Michael Maloney, and Constance by Eileen Atkins.]King John of England is pitted against the united powers of France, Brittany, Austria, and the Papacy. Will England be destroyed by his fatal indecision?As alliances are made, broken, and remade, the paranoid and erratic John reveals his weakness and reliance on those around him - including his powerful mother Queen Elinor and Faulconbridge, the cynical and witty bastard son of the dead King Richard I.
language: English
title: King John
titlecomplete: King John (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare)
characters: French Herald, Philip Faulconbridge, later Sir Richard Plantagenet (the Bastard), William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, Cardinal Pandulph, Blanche of Castille, James Gurney, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Robert Faulconbridge, Citizen of Angiers, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex, Hubert de Burgh, Lady Faulconbridge, William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, Philippe II of France, Louis VIII of France, English Herald, Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk, English Messenger, Arthur I, Duke of Brittany, John of England, French Messenger, Constance Penthièvre, Duchess of Brittany, Second Executioner, Viscount of Melun, Limoges, Duke of Austria, Henry III of England, Sheriff, Chatillon, First Executioner, Peter of Pomfret
genres: 16th Century, Historical Fiction, Theatre, Drama, Plays, Poetry, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 6999
places: Angers, England
publisher: AudioGO