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    Sir John Oldcastle is an Elizabethan play about John Oldcastle, a controversial 14th-/15th-century rebel and Lollard who was seen by some of Shakespeare's...
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    Sir John Oldcastle (died 14 December 1417) was an English Lollard leader. From 1409 to 1413, he was summoned to parliament as Baron Cobham, in the right...
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  • village Oldcastle, Ontario, Canada, an unincorporated community Sir John Oldcastle, a supporter of the Lollards in the 15th century Sir John Oldcastle, a play...
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    The Oldcastle Revolt was a Lollard uprising directed against the Catholic Church and the English king, Henry V. The revolt was led by John Oldcastle, taking...
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    of Berwick at his approach; and on his return to London he brought Sir John Oldcastle to trial and was present at his execution. He appears to have governed...
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    Shakespeare's Henry V, and in the anonymous play, The History of Sir John Oldcastle. Although Cambridge's title was forfeited, he was not attainted, and...
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    laugh this sport o'er by a country fire; Sir John and all". Shakespeare originally named Falstaff "John Oldcastle", a real historical personage who died...
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    plans. It is also portrayed in the anonymous play, The History of Sir John Oldcastle (c.1600) and in William Kenrick's Falstaff's Wedding (1760). The Southampton...
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    playwrights wrote a two-part play entitled Sir John Oldcastle, which presents a heroic dramatisation of Oldcastle's life and was published in 1600. In 1986...
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    King John is not included in the Henriad because it is said to have a style that is of a different order than the other history plays. King John has great...
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