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These two history plays one writted in the early days of Shakespeare's career and one at the very end-are alike in the complexity of their polotical visison. King John probes the nature of good and evil as self-interest and ruthless ambition proceed unchecked while an unpoplar ruler wages a brutal fight to jeep his throne, Henry VIII ia a sumptuous spectable of pomp and ceremony,as well as an exploration of the mysterious ways in which we the rise and fall from power of individuals led by ultimately to England's Destiny as a Prostant nation.
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