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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 13
T2  - Journal of the Wooden O Symposium
SP  - 1-24
ID  - bbbc2199
T1  - "The Kingly Bastard & the Bastardly King: Nation, Imagination, and Agency in Shakespeare's King John"
AU  - Carroll, Brian
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2026
LA  - English
AB  - Proposes that Shakespeare's King John prompted its audiences to "think of themselves as individuals with the agency necessary to choose nation rather than merely exist as subjects whose nation chose them." Presents the Bastard as a heroic figure whose humor and distance from the play's central action allow the audience to identify with him, thus making his questions about the legitimacy and uses of political power their own.
ER  -