One character in this work responds to an assignment by averring "Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back, when gold and silver becks me to come on" and rails against self-interest in a speech which ends "Since kings break faith upon commodity, gain, be my lord, for I will worship thee!"
One character in this work responds to an assignment by averring "Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back, when gold and silver becks me to come on" and rails against self-interest in a speech which ends "Since kings break faith upon commodity, gain, be my lord, for I will worship thee!" That character convinces two armies to stop fighting and join forces to take the city of Angiers and acquires a lion skin by killing the Duke of Austria. A superfluous second coronation in this play prompts Salisbury to list other redundancies, including the oft-misquoted line "to gild refined gold, to paint the lily". The papal legate Pandulph excommunicates the title character, who orders Hubert de Burgh to kill his primary rival, Arthur of Brittany. It opens with Elinor recognizing Philip Faulconbridge, later known as the Bastard, as the son of Richard the Lionhearted. FTP, name this history play by William Shakespeare, which does not mention its title character signing the Magna Carta.
One character in this work responds to an assignment by averring "Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back, when gold and silver becks me to come on" and rails against self-interest in a speech which ends "Since kings break faith upon commodity, gain, be my lord, for I will worship thee!"
The Life and Death of King John