March 13, 2012 by English

KING JOHN
By William Shakespeare
Sunday 18 March 2012 7 p.m.
Email for location (see details below).

From Professor Darlene Farabee: I am hosting this playreading on Sunday evening partly because Professor Barbara Traister will be visiting from Lehigh University (and giving a lecture the next day). She plans to attend the playreading and this was one of her suggestions of plays she would be particularly interested in. Also, nice to read a history play now, since we’ll be reading Henry V fairly soon after (in April). King John is an early play, both for Shakespeare writing it –and also as an history of an early king of England (reigned 1199-1216). John was son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. It might be one you haven’t read before.

If you are able to come to the reading, email me by noon on Friday and I’ll cast the play on Saturday morning.

Darlene Farabee, darlene.farabee-AT-usd-DOT-edu