Political machination and honour

• "This might have been prevented made whole
  With very easy arguments of love" (1.1.35-6)

• Philip/Richard chooses honour not land (1.1.151); his soliloquy (1.1.182ff)
• Who is the King? (1.2.267ff)
• The Bastard's enthusiastic/realistic response to war (2.1.350); see 4.3.145-50
• His plan to combine against the city: "Smacks it not something of the policy" (2.1.396)
• Then Hubert's political solution: marriage (2.1.416ff)
• The Bastard on Commodity (2.1.561-98)
• Philip tries to follow the letter of Pandulph's law, without disjoining hands with John (3.1.188)
  • Pandulph's equivocation
  John breaks to Hubert his plan to kill Arthur (3.2.39-77)
• Pandulph works on Lewis (3.3.116ff)
• The Lords rebel at the second coronation, and Arthur's supposed death (4.2)
• Irony: John blames Hubert for Arthur's death; he's not dead -yet (4.2.208ff)
  • John: "There is no sure foundation set on blood" (4.2.104)
• Irony: the Lords discover Arthur dead as the Bastard and Hubert arrive to say otherwise (4.3.34ff)
• John yields his crown; Pandulph promises to make his peace with France (5.1)
• The Bastard cheerleads John as he loses courage: John gives to him "the ordering of this present time" (5.2.77)
• Lewis rejects Pandulph (5.2.79)
• Melun reveals the treachery (equivocation) of Lewis to the British nobles (5.4.14)