The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English (Translated)

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William
Shakespeare’s

The Complete Works of Shakespeare

In Plain and Simple English

 

 

 

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Contents

About This Series

 

Histories

King John

King Richard the Second

King Richard III

Henry IV: Part One

Henry IV: Part Two

Henry V

Henry VI: Part 1

Henry VI: Part 2

Henry VI: Part 3

King Henry VIII

 

Comedies

All’s Well That Ends Well

As You Like It

The Comedy of Errors

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Measure for Measure

The Merchant of Venice

The Merry Wives of Windsor

A Midsummer Nights Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

The Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest

Twelfth Night

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Two Noble Kinsmen

The Winter Tale

 
 

Tragedies

Anthony and Cleopatra

Coriolanus

Cymbeline

Hamlet

Julius Caesar

King Lear

Macbeth

Othello

Romeo and Juliet

Timon of Athens

Titus Andronicus

Troilus and Cressida

 
 

Sonnets

 
 

  

 

The “Classic Retold” series started as a way of telling classics for the modern reader—being careful to preserve the themes and integrity of the original. Whether you want to understand Shakespeare a little more or are trying to get a better grasps of the Greek classics, there is a book waiting for you!

 

 

 

William Shakespeare’s

In Plain and Simple English

In Plain and Simple English

  

 

KING JOHN

PRINCE HENRY, his son

ARTHUR, DUKE OF BRITAINE, son of Geffrey, late Duke of

Britaine, the elder brother of King John

EARL OF PEMBROKE

EARL OF ESSEX

EARL OF SALISBURY

LORD BIGOT

HUBERT DE BURGH

ROBERT FAULCONBRIDGE, son to Sir Robert Faulconbridge

PHILIP THE BASTARD, his half-brother

JAMES GURNEY, servant to Lady Faulconbridge

PETER OF POMFRET, a prophet

 

KING PHILIP OF FRANCE

LEWIS, the Dauphin

LYMOGES, Duke of Austria

CARDINAL PANDULPH, the Pope's legate

MELUN, a French lord

CHATILLON, ambassador from France to King John

 

QUEEN ELINOR, widow of King Henry II and mother to

King John

CONSTANCE, Mother to Arthur

BLANCH OF SPAIN, daughter to the King of Castile

and niece to King John

LADY FAULCONBRIDGE, widow of Sir Robert Faulconbridge

 

Lords, Citizens of Angiers, Sheriff, Heralds, Officers,

Soldiers, Executioners, Messengers, Attendants

 

 

 

SCENE:

England and France

 

 

KING JOHN's palace

 

Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, PEMBROKE, ESSEX, SALISBURY, and

others,

with CHATILLON

 

KING JOHN.

Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us?

 

Now tell me, Chatillon, what does the King of France want from me?

 

CHATILLON.

Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France

In my behaviour to the majesty,

The borrowed majesty, of England here.

 

After the greeting this is what the King of France

says, through me as his representative,

to the counterfeit royalty of England.

 

ELINOR.

A strange beginning- 'borrowed majesty'!

 

This is a strange beginning–“counterfeit royalty"!

 

KING JOHN.

Silence, good mother; hear the embassy.

 

Quiet, good mother; listen to what it says.

 

CHATILLON.

Philip of France, in right and true behalf

Of thy deceased brother Geffrey's son,

Arthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful claim

To this fair island and the territories,

To Ireland, Poictiers, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,

Desiring thee to lay aside the sword

Which sways usurpingly these several titles,

And put the same into young Arthur's hand,

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