SOURCE: "King John and The Troublesome Raigne: Sources, Structure, Sequence," in Philological Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 1, Winter, 1995, pp. 37-56.
In the following essay, Boyd closely analyzes The Troublesome Reign of King John, arguing that this inferior play is not the source for Shakespeare's King John or for its character the Bastard, but that King John is in fact the source for The Troublesome Reign.
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