Cannons, Arden of Faversham, Troublesome Reign of King John, and King John

Topic: Cannons, Arden of Faversham, Troublesome Reign of King John, and King John

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• No verified sourced facts have been isolated in this packet yet; current value is mainly as a source map or lead packet.

2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

• A Ken Feinstein blog post dated 21 Nov. 2018 states:

“Mayfield manor and park had come into Neville hands through Neville’s mother, Elizabeth Gresham, and included a furnace used for casting iron ordnance.”

• The same post states:

“through most of the 1580s and 1597, Sir Henry Neville was intimately involved in the manufacture of ordinance (cannons).”

• The same post states:

“cannon imagery is a hallmark of Shakespeare's works”

• The same post states:

“When trying to determine whether a certain apocryphal work was actually written by Shakespeare/Neville, my first check is always for cannon imagery.”

• The same post states:

“John Casson suggests that the Troublesome Reign of King John was written by Neville/Shakespeare.”

• The same post states:

“A quarto of this play was published in 1591”

• The same post quotes The Troublesome Reign:

“As is the eccho of a Cannons crack / Dischargd against the battlements of heauen.”

• The same post states:

“Conventional wisdom is that George Peele wrote the play.”

• The same post states that the word orisons:

“appears four times in the play and appears in several Shakespeare plays”

• Folger's Shakespeare Documented page for the 1611 second edition of The Troublesome Reign of King John confirms that the play was first published anonymously in 1591, that the 1611 quarto added Written by W.Sh., and that a 1622 quarto expanded that attribution to W. Shakespeare.

• Folgerpedia's King John page states that Shakespeare's King John was probably written in 1594-96, published in the 1623 First Folio, and that The Troublesome Reign of John King of England may be a source.

3. Citations

• Feinstein, Ken. “Cannons, Arden of Faversham, Troublesome Reign of King John, and King John.” kenfeinstein.blogspot.com, 21 Nov. 2018, https://kenfeinstein.blogspot.com/2018/11/cannons-arden-of-faversham-troublesome.html. Local preservation: blog_cannons_arden_troublesome_reign_2018-11-21.md.
• Kirwan, Peter. “The Troublesome Reign of King John, second edition.” Shakespeare Documented, Folger Shakespeare Library, https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/resource/document/troublesome-reign-king-john-second-edition.
• “King John.” Folgerpedia, Folger Shakespeare Library, https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/King_John.
• mayfield_manor_and_ironworks.md, related Mayfield packet.

4. Notes on Access

• This is a lead packet, not a primary-source packet.
• This packet preserves a Ken Feinstein blog post.
• The locally preserved Blogger export records no embedded images for this post.
• The play text, quarto evidence, and authorship claims should be cited directly before this packet is treated as standalone evidence.
• Web audit result: the bibliographic relationship between Troublesome Reign and Shakespeare's King John is real and source-discussed, but the cannon-imagery/authorship extension remains a Ken Feinstein interpretive lead until direct textual extraction and comparison are done.