¹⁰ Jean E. Howard and Phyllis Rackin, Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories (London: Routledge, 1997), 119. See also David Womersley’s discussion of the Bastard as a response to political fracture in ‘The Politics of Shakespeare’s King John, Review of English Studies 40 (1989), 497–515; Michael Manheim, ‘The Four Voices of the Bastard’, in King John: New Perspectives, ed. D. T. Curren-Aquino (Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1989), 126–35.