William Shakespeare's King John

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King John

Dramatis Personae.
Act 1
- Scene 1. KING JOHN'S palace.
Act 2
- Scene 1. France. Before Angiers.
Act 3
- Scene 1. The French King's pavilion.
- Scene 2. The same. Plains near Angiers.
- Scene 3. The same.
- Scene 4. The same. KING PHILIP'S tent.
Act 4
- Scene 1. A room in a castle.
- Scene 2. KING JOHN'S palace.
- Scene 3. Before the castle.
Act 5
- Scene 1. KING JOHN'S palace.
- Scene 2. LEWIS's camp at St. Edmundsbury.
- Scene 3. The field of battle.
- Scene 4. Another part of the field.
- Scene 5. The French camp.
- Scene 6. An open place in the neighbourhood of Swinstead Abbey.
- Scene 7. The orchard in Swinstead Abbey.

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My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night;
Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about
The other four in wondrous motion.
King John (4.2), Hubert

Although Shakespeare would have not even known the planet Uranus existed, 24 of its 27 known moons are named after his characters. Bianca and Umbriel are named after characters in Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock and, surprisingly, John Herschel named the brightest moon of Uranus, Ariel, after the character in Pope's work, not the more famous Ariel in Shakespeare's The Tempest.

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