Shakespeare

What Came of a Good King

Crown 9, Gloucester and Jack Cade

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A crowned king greets a young veiled queen as a nobleman kneels before them.
Illustration by John Gilbert, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers, The Plays of Shakespeare, ed. Howard Staunton, Routledge, 1858-64Original

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A ship comes in from France. Suffolk has brought back the king’s bride. She is a young woman named Margaret.

The marriage document is read out on the spot. The queen brings no dowry, it says. England gives back part of its French land instead.

The king’s uncle Humphrey stops reading and lets the paper fall. It was land the men of the last chapter had won with their lives. The new king stood there looking only at the queen.

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