King John for 7 plus Stage Directions
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The play opens in 1199 and closes in 1216 (17 years). The ages mentioned below are the ages of the people at the beginning of the play. 

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1:	437	King John, 32 years old (died at 49; possibly poisoned), youngest and favorite son of Henry II: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3, 5.7

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2:	527	Philip the Bastard, later knighted as Sir Richard Plantagenet: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.6, 5.7

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3:	22	Robert Faulconbridge, legitimate son of Lady Faulconbridge: 1.1
	197	King Philip of France, 34 years old (died at 58): 2.1, 3.1, 3.4 
			(he is actually the son of Queen Eleanor's first husband)
	38	Melun, a French lord: 5.4
	29	Prince Henry, later King Henry III, eldest son of King John. He succeeded to the throne at the age of nine (lived to be 65): 5.7
	8	Robert Lord Bigot, 29 years old (died at age 51), later the 2d Earl of Norfolk: 4.3
	79	Earl of Pembroke, William Marshall, 53 years old (died at 73): 4.2, 4.3, 5.4, 5.7 
		He was a Knight Templar and his effigy is in the Inner Temple (where the last scene of The Da Vinci Code takes place). He stood by the old King Henry II.
	(total 373)

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4:	154	Lewis the Dauphin, prince, 12 years old, son of the King of France: 2.1, 3.1, 3.4, 5.2, 5.5
	32	Duke of Austria (Limoges): 2.1, 3.1
	12	French Herald: 2.1
	3	Earl of Essex, Geoffrey FitzPeirs, 34 years old (died at 48); King John hates him: 1.1.
	2	Executioner: 4.1
	163	Cardinal Pandulph, the Pope's legate (ambassador): 3.1, 3.4, 5.1, 5.2
	(total 281)

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5:	155	Earl of Salisbury, William Longsword, 39 years old (died at 66); bastard son of Henry II so he is half-brother to King John: 3.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2, 5.4, 5.7 
	120	Prince Arthur, 13 years old (he was actually 17 when he died), Duke of Brittany, nephew of King John (he is the posthumous son of John's elder brother, Geoffrey): 2.1, 3.1, 3.3, 4.1, 4.3
	13	English Herald; 2.1
	(total 288)

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6:	202	Hubert de Burgh, 34 years old (lived to be 78), in the service of 
			King John; he is sometimes called Citizen: 2.1, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.3, 5.6
	53	Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, 77 years old (died at 82), mother of King John: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.3
	15	Lady Faulconbridge, widow of Sir Robert Faulconbridge: 1.1
	1	James Gurney, attendant to Lady Faulconbridge: 1.1
	1	Peter of Pomfret, a prophet: 4.2
	(total 272)

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7:	42	Chatillon, ambassador from France to King John: 1.1, 2.1
	264	Constance, 39 years old (died at 41), widow of King John's elder brother Geoffrey, mother of Arthur: 2.1, 3.1, 3.4
	43	Blanche of Castille, 11 years old, niece of King John (daughter of his sister Eleanor, who married the King of Spain): 2.1, 3.1
	28	Messenger: 4.2, 5.3, 5.5
	(total 371)

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SD:		Stage Directions