List of Historical Figures Dramatised By Shakespeare - J

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• Jack Cade leads a proletarian rebellion in Henry VI, Part 2.
• Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc) leads the Dauphin's forces against Talbot and the English in Henry VI, Part 1.
• John:
  • John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, uncle to King Richard and father to Bolingbroke, dies in Richard II, having delivered his famous "This sceptred isle..." speech.
  • King John is the title character of King John: a king whose throne is under threat from the claim of his young nephew, Arthur.
  • Prince John of Lancaster, the younger brother of Hal, would be a fairly minor character in Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V, were it not for his central, unscrupulous, role in the Gaultree Forest episode of Henry IV, Part 2. He is also the Duke of Bedford who is Regent of France in Henry VI, Part 1.
  • See also Sir John Blunt, Sir John Falstaff, Sir John Fastolfe, John Gower, Sir John Montgomery, Sir John Mortimer, Sir John Stanley, Sir John Talbot or John Talbot.
• Julius Caesar is the title character of Julius Caesar, an Emperor of Rome who is stabbed in the Capitol, on the Ides of March.