King John

:This article is about the Shakespearean play. For the English monarch, see John of England. For other kings named John see Kings named John'.'

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In the Victorian era, King John was one of Shakespeare's most frequently staged plays, in part because of the opportunities it offers for spectacle and pageantry that suited the style of the Victorian stage. However, the play has now dropped in popularity to the extent that it is one of Shakespeare's least-known plays and stagings of it are very rare.

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