ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION KING JOHN was not printed before the First Folio of 1623, in which it is the first of the Histories. The text there is reasonably good, but there is some confusion in scene headings and speech prefixes which Sir W. W. Greg ascribed to the carelessness of the author's MS, used as F1 copy and containing some annotations made by the book-keeper in the theatre. J. D. Wilson sees evidence of revision and considers that a play first written in 1590 was revised in 1594.
