That play, adapted from another named for this man's "Troublesome Raigne", features soliloquies on "sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth" on hypocrisy and one opening "Mad world, mad kings, mad composition!"
The first act of a play named for this man ends with the Interpretour calling him a Moses to Henry VIII's Joshua; later in that play, Dissymulacyon asks that monks pray for him if he dies poisoning this man as Simon of Swinsett. Brian Vickers used computer analyses of one play about this man to attribute it to George Peele, and in that play, an ally of this man sees a vision of four moons orbited by a fifth. In another namesake play, this man declares a "young boy" to be "a very serpent in my way" and gives Hubert the subtle command "Death... A grave" for Arthur's murder. That play, adapted from another named for this man's "Troublesome Raigne", features soliloquies on "sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth" on hypocrisy and one opening "Mad world, mad kings, mad composition!" given by Philip the Bastard, the foremost ally of this king in his wars with Philip II and Louis the Dauphin. For 10 points, name this Angevin king, subject of a Shakespeare history, in which he is excommunicated and England put under interdict. 
The first act of a play named for this man ends with the Interpretour calling him a Moses to Henry VIII's Joshua; later in that play, Dissymulacyon asks that monks pray for him if he dies poisoning this man as Simon of Swinsett.
King John I of England [accept King Johan] 