Abstract
Thus, for John Dover Wilson, King John is an uncomplicated reflection of the 'newfound sense of national unity and purpose which was the mainspring of Elizabethan activity in every field'.2 Such qualities may have seemed desiderata in 1936; perhaps also in 1944, when E. M. W. Tillyard saw King John as an exemplification of the Elizabethan valuing of order and degree.3 Criticism of Shakespeare's history plays since 1944 has frequently quarrelled with Tillyard's thesis that all these dramas celebrate the nostrums of the 'Elizabethan World Picture', and has at times almost assumed the character of a flyting.4 Yet Tillyard's view of the plays
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