SOURCE: Grennan, Eamon. “Shakespeare's Satirical History: A Reading of King John.” Shakespeare Studies 11 (1978): 21-37.
In the following essay, Grennan contends that Shakespeare's idiosyncratic King John reflects a pivotal change in the historiographic method of the dramatist's earlier chronicle history plays and his source material.
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