King John (play) production of the play (directed by Ben Humphrey) around the tomb of King John in Worcester Cathedral on the 800th anniversary of the King's death. King John was played by Phil Leach. The Bremer Shakespeare Company performed the play at the Globe Theater Neuss as part of the Shakespeare Festival im Globe Neuss on 28th June 2005. The play was translated into German and directed by Rainer Iwersen. King John (play) The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199–1216), son of Henry II of England
Máel Coluim, son of the king of the Cumbrians of the king of the Cumbrians" from "Historia regum Anglorum". The "Chronicle of Melrose" may therefore be the earliest source to explicitly associate Máel Coluim mac Donnchada with the events of 1054. As as result of this identification, this Scottish monarch was portrayed as a man who only possessed his throne on account of English assistance. The catalyst behind the monks' misrepresentation of Siward's invasion appears to have been an English revolt dating to 1173 and 1174, when the reigning King of Scotland—a great-grandson of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada—backed a failed rebellion against the King of England. As a result