Excerpt from The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England, Vol. 2: The First Quarto, 1591, Which Shakspere Rewrote (About 1595) As His "Life and Death of King John"; A Facsimile, by Photolithography, From the Unique Original in the Capell Collection at Trinity College, Cambridge After Easter, king John was invested duke of Normandy, and leaving his mother to defend Guienne, he past over Into England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.