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The Troublesome Reign of King John

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is not an exceptionally long play, about 300 lines longer than Shakespeare's, the initial publication split the play into two parts. (The scholarly literature often refers to Parts 1 and 2 of the play as a result.)
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Some 19th-century critics accepted the 1622 attribution to Shakespeare; among 20th-century commentators E. B. Everitt and
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The Predecessors of Shakespeare: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama,
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have defended the Shakespearean attribution. Candidates put forward for the author of
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8 Volumes, New York, Columbia University Press, 1957-75; Vol. 4, pp. 4-24 and 72-151.
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Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1973; p. 182.
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Elizabethan
George Peele
William Shakespeare
King John
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quarto
Q1
1591
Queen Elizabeth's Men
Q2
1611
Valentine Simmes
1622
Augustine Matthews
Peter Ackroyd
Christopher Marlowe
Robert Greene
Thomas Lodge
George Peele
Raphael Holinshed
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
John Foxe
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William Shakespeare
King John

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