High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of King John of England (ruled 1199–1216), son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and father of Henry III of England. It is believed to have been written in the mid-1590s but was not published until it appeared in the First Folio in 1623. Shakespeare's play has a close relationship to an earlier history play, The Troublesome Reign of King John (ca. 1589). The consensus among modern scholars is that the earlier play provided a source and model for Shakespeare. There is, however, a strong line of oppositional criticism that argues for the priority of Shakespeare's play, beginning with Peter Alexander and continuing with the work of E. A. J. Honigmann. Some critics believe that Shakespeare revised the early version of the play in the mid-1590s. It is possible that The Troublesome Reign is his play or that it is a "bad quarto" or memorial reconstruction put together by one or more actors in an earlier stage production.

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