
King John
Play by William ShakespeareWikipedia
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Sep 16, 2026
1. Hamnet: Motherhood, Nature and Theatre
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34:01Lesel DawsonGUEST
And of course, as we'll get to, thinking of Head to Hamlet, there are also places where we can remember, where we can speak to imaginatively people who have died, where we can recreate them in different ways.
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34:19Lesel DawsonGUEST
People often mention Constance from King John and her expression of grief for her son as a way for Shakespeare more directly to express grief and the text that isn't mentioned very often for obvious reasons but it's The Spanish Tragedy which is written by Kidd but there are these editions from 1602 five editions and they are just new moments in the play.
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34:54Lesel DawsonGUEST
To back up a little, the play is about the death of a son, the murder of a son, and it's a revenge play, but a lot of the content deals with mourning, the father mourning the death of his son.
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35:08Lesel DawsonGUEST
The additions from 1602, which some people think Shakespeare wrote, I am one of the people who thinks Shakespeare wrote these additions, are just extra speeches, extra bits of a father expressing grief for his son.