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	Shakespearean histories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The plays normally described as histories are those based on the lives of English kings.
		The plays that depict older historical figures such as Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Julius Caesar, and the legendary King Lear are not usually included in the classification.
		Shakespeare was living under the reign of Elizabeth I, the last monarch of the house of Tudor, and his history plays are often regarded as Tudor propaganda because they show the dangers of civil war and celebrate the founders of the Tudor dynasty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_play (232 words)

	Edward III (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Reign of King Edward III is a play attributed to William Shakespeare.
		The plot of the play centers around the Countess of Salisbury (the wife of the Earl of Salisbury), beset by rampaging Scots, who is "rescued" by King Edward III, who vows to get her into his bed.
		The play makes many gibes at Scotland and the Scots, a view which has led some critics to believe that it is this work which caused George Nicolson, Queen Elizabeth's agent in Edinburgh, to write in 1598 to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, protesting the way Scots were being portrayed on the London stage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_III_(play) (297 words)

	§5. "Edward III". X. Plays of Uncertain Authorship Attributed to Shakespeare. Vol. 5. The Drama to 1642, Part One. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Edward III was first published, anonymously, in 1596, and a second edition followed in 1599; but it was not until Capell re-edited the play in his Prolusions (1760) that the claim for Shakespearean authorship was seriously put forward.
		The love scenes are also distinguished from the rest of the play by the strain of lyricism in which the author indulges; it would, indeed, be difficult to find in the whole range of Elizabethan drama a passage more completely imbued with lyric feeling than that in which Edward converses with Lodowick, his secretary.
		Without it, the play would be too brief, and it is hard to believe that any dramatist, especially if he were Robert Greene or a member of Greene’s school, would have allowed the romantic love story to pass unnoticed when reading the pages of Froissart.
	www.bartleby.com /215/1005.html (1277 words)

	Edward III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The play was registered late in 1595 and published by the same publisher of the first quarto of Love's Labour's Lost and the second quarto of Romeo and Juliet.
		Edward III often remains among the apocrypha, but the New Cambridge edition and the New Oxford Shakespeare now include it in the canon.
		Sir William Mountague brings news that the Scots have broken the peace treaty and King David has seized the castle of Roxborough, home of the Countess of Salisbury (the daughter of Warwick, who is also present) and her husband.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/shakespeare/edward3.1.html (592 words)

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		Part III of Henry VI is concerned with King Henry's loss of the throne and the eventual triumph of the house of York through Edward IV, son of Richard of York.
		Edward IV, in the meantime, marries Elizabeth Grey, who was a member of the house of Lancaster, and his promotion of her relatives at court only adds fuel to the conflict between York and Lancaster.
		Edward IV goes on to fight Margaret of Anjou, who is leading the forces of Henry VI, and defeats her at the battle of Tewkesbury in 1471.
	home.snu.edu /~ghackler.fs/ENGL4113/historic.htm (1379 words)

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		Richard III, the eleventh child of Richard, Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, was born in 1452.
		The old nobility, also fearful of a strengthened Woodville clan, assembled and declared the succession of Edward V as illegal, due to weak evidence suggesting that Edward IV's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville was bigamous, thereby rendering his sons illegitimate and ineligible as heirs to the crown.
		Edward V and his younger brother, Richard of York, were imprisoned in the Tower of London, never to again emerge alive.
	www.colorado.edu /English/Ball/richardiii.html (441 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Shakespeare's lost labours found
		They believe that the play was a collaborative effort by a group of playwrights, but that Shakespeare may have taken charge at a late stage of the writing.
		The play was not a success and was suppressed by the monarchy for fear of offending the Scots.
		Edward III has long been part of the Shakespeare 'apocrypha' - a group of plays and poems which various scholars have attempted to claim as the work of Stratford's most famous son.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/182023.stm (464 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		by the 1998 publication of The New Cambridge Shakespeare's edition of "King Edward III." The editor of that volume, Giorgio Melchiori, Professor Emeritus of English literature at Universit` Roma Tre, argues that while Shakespeare is not the sole author of the play, he undoubtedly contributed a significant proportion of its words.
		It is regrated [= regretted] to me in quiet sort that the comedians of London in their play scorn the King and people of this land and wished that it be speedily amended and stayed, lest the worst sort getting understanding thereof should stir the King and country to anger thereat.
		Edward III belongs to the same period and probably involves Shakespeare at least as collaborator.
	www.fathom.com /feature/35055 (1100 words)

	Pacific Repertory Theatre - Royal Blood
		Edward, eldest son of York, assumes the title of King of England.
		Edward now holds the throne as King Edward IV, but Richard yet plots his own means to usurp the crown for himself.
		In the course of events, Edward IV, who is deathly ill at the beginning of the play, dies; Richard has already arranged for George to be murdered while imprisoned, and so it stands that Richard will serve as regent while Edward's son (also named Edward) can come of age.
	www.pacrep.org /royalblood2004.htm (914 words)

	Criticism: 'Edward III' in 'Henry V.'@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		'Edward III' was a well-known play during the Renaissance.
		A textual examination of 'Henry V' would reveal how he utilized 'Edward III' and how he dealt with the problem of close similarity between the two kings, though Henry V was a descendant of Edward III.
		Instead of attempting to erase one with the other Shakespeare chose to incorporate Edward III into Henry V. Shakespeare knew the play called The Raigne of King Edward the Third as well as he knew...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:17863704&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (217 words)

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		The film portrays his son Edward II (reigned 1307-27) in homophobic terms, as a weakling unworthy of rule, and suggests that his son was begotten by William Wallace (who in fact died before Edward II was even married).
		Edward III, however, staged a coup of his own, imprisoning his mother, executing her lover, and taking power into his own hands.
		The murder of Prince Edward is depicted in 3 Henry VI V. v, and that of Henry VI in 3 Henry VI V. vi.
	www.uic.edu /classes/engl/engl313/history1.html (952 words)

	The Chronicle and History Play
		An early play called Edward III was ascribed to Shakespeare by Edward Capell more than a century and a half after Shakespeare's death, though critical judgment of today has not endorsed his judgment.
		Edward II is the first fine historical drama in the English language, and aside from the Shakespearean tragedies, the best in existence.
		It was this play which gave the impetus to the great choir of singers and playwrights who filled the years up to and into the seventeenth century; and it went far towards fixing the type of English historical tragedy.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/bellinger002.html (813 words)

	To Prove a Villain -- The Real Richard III
		Edward III was taken from his effigy at the Abbey.
		The version in the Royal Collection was painted on boards cut from the same tree as companion portraits of Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III, probably recorded in the Royal Inventories of 1542 and 1547, and the source of all later images.
		Edward's background is striped, a feature of Italian paintings of the early 16th century.
	www.r3.org /rnt1991/paintedqueen.html (2089 words)

	Additional Reading (from Edward III) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		A quarto text was published in 1596; the play must have been written prior to that date, presumably in the early 1590s, when...
		Expelled in December 1332, he was restored in 1333–56, having acknowledged Edward III of England as his lord.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-2032?tocId=2032 (842 words)

	Edward's character (from Edward III) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Edward III possessed extraordinary vigour and energy of temperament; he was an admirable tactician and a consummate knight.
		Edward Dowden, an Irish educator, literary critic, biographer, and poet, was best known for his studies of William Shakespeare.
		Edward Davenport was considered one of the most skilled and popular American actors of the mid-19th century.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-2031?tocId=2031 (940 words)

	The War of the Roses
		Edward IV is descended from Edmund Langley, first Duke of York, a younger son of Edward III.
		Thus, Edward IV is directly descended from Edward III's fifth royal son (Edmund first Duke of York), and is related through the maternal line to Edward III's second son (Lionel Duke of Clarence).
		Thus Edward IV is doubly related to Edward III, and his relation to Lionel (the second son) is more legitimate than Henry VI's relation to John of Gaunt (the fourth son of Edward III).
	www.english.uga.edu /~cdesmet/rosewar.htm (1362 words)

	The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
		Edward IV dies, intensifying the Duke of Gloucester's desire for the throne.
		Under the guise of protection, Richard has both Edward V (the Prince of Wales) and his brother the Duke of York stay in the Tower of London, a place where Gloucester, Henry VI and George have all been killed...
		Now, Richard III imprisons Rivers, Vaughn and Grey, all of whom are loyal to Edward and are killed at Pomfret Castle.
	absoluteshakespeare.com /plays/richard_III/richard_III.htm (610 words)

	Amazon.com: Edward II: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This play in five acts or twenty-five scenes, written by Christopher Marlowe (1564 to 1593, born the same year as Shakespeare) is a history play that chronicles the reign of Edward the Second.
		Edward was bisexual because he had a queen who he had a son with (the future Edward the Third) and, as well, had a male partner (named Piers Gaveston).
		Edward the second, or to give it its full title, 'The troublesome reign and Lamentable death of Edward, the second king of England, with the tragical fall of proud Mortimer', is famous for being an Elizabethan 'Gay play', but this is only one of the subjects contained within the play.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1854594109?v=glance (1677 words)

	Books: All His Children? (The Boston Phoenix . 08-17-98)
		Edward III, first published in 1596 (in a Quarto volume whose title page read: "THE RAIGNE OF KING EDVVARD the third: As it hath bin sundrie times plaied about the Citie of London"), has since been consigned to that most dreaded of authors, Anonymous.
		Edward III ruled England from 1327 to 1377; this drama focuses on the beginnings of the Hundred Years War for the French succession, telescoping Edward's victories at Crécy (346) and Calais (1347) and his son the Black Prince's capture of the French king John at Poitiers (1356).
		It's long on plot, short on characterization, save for the scenes where Edward comes to the rescue of the Countess of Salisbury and is so smitten that he commands her to become his mistress.
	weeklywire.com /ww/08-17-98/boston_books_1.html (2174 words)

	Phyllis Rackin: "What Do You Do With a Woman Warrior?: A Response to 'Effeminate Dayes'" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The anonymous play Edward III, for instance, suggests not only that the Elizabethan history play could stage positive images of powerful women but also that these images were already available in the historical record.
		But Edward III is the only one of these plays in which female military achievement is never condemned and never characterized as anomalous or inappropriate.
		What is remarkable in Edward III, however, is that the lady is a literal warrior as well as a metaphorical one, defending her husband's castle with the same resolute courage that she subsequently demonstrates in the face of the king's courtship.
	eserver.org /emc/1-1/rackin.html (2388 words)

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		In the Norton edition the plays are arranged not in the order of the First Folio as comedies, histories, and tragedies, but in order of their supposed chronology -- I say supposed because there is insufficient evidence to establish the sequence with certainty.
		Furthermore, the titles of some plays are changed, so that, for instance, 2 Henry VI becomes The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster, a title derived from the quarto of 1594, which seems to be an abbreviated acting version, probably a memorial reconstruction.
		The plays are grouped chronologically by genre roughly in accordance with the arrangement in the Folio, as comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances, an arrangement which is convenient for teaching purposes, and helps students to see thematic relations between, for instance, the history plays.
	www.aug.edu /~nprinsky/Engl4420/Foakes1VshakesRev.htm (2995 words)

	Richard III on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On the death (Apr., 1483) of the king, Edward's eldest son, then only 12 years old, was proclaimed king as Edward V.
		Richard, aided by Henry Stafford, 2d duke of Buckingham, seized custody of the young king from Edward IV's widow, Elizabeth Woodville, and her relatives, and was able to assume the protectorship.
		Edward V and his brother were placed in the Tower of London, where they were almost certainly murdered.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/Richard3.asp (612 words)

	Shakespeare
		The first play in the new sequence, Richard II, was followed by the three plays known as the Henriad: Henry IV (in two parts) and Henry V.
		There are many echoes of his plays in the Sonnets, a number of which may have been written as early as 1595; two of them (sonnets 138 and 144) were printed in 1599.
		To us, the characters in his plays seem to dwell overmuch on aristocratic honor, but as late as the eighteenth century his portrayals of kings and nobles were disparaged for having been too meanly drawn.
	english.cla.umn.edu /faculty/haley/Shakesp.htm (3277 words)

	Edward III (play) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Reign of King Edward III is a play attributed to (English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)) William Shakespeare.
		It was not mentioned in (additional info and facts about Francis Meres) Francis Meres' book Palladis Tamia, a work which listed Shakespeare's early plays.
		In addition, there are passages in the play which are direct quotes from (A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme) sonnets known to have been written by Shakespeare.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edward_iii_(play)2.htm (217 words)

	SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE
		Henry plays the role of merciful monarch to perfection, being led by piety to recall the marquess of Dorset, stepson of Edward the Fourth, from prison in Paris, where he had been placed after trying to flee secretly to England in order to aid Richard (24).
		The play is not real, but for the most part the historical persons and events it purports to represent at one time were.
		According to Nashe, the advantage that stage plays have over printed chronicles lies in their visceral immediacy; he claims a stronger identification with the historical subjects when history is fleshed out and bodied forth.
	www.marshall.edu /engsr/SR1998.html (16475 words)

	Richard III
		The characters and events in the history plays were the stuff of familiar legend for Shakspeare's audience; for us, they are not as familiar, so we must be patient as we get to know who's who and find our way amidst the twists and turns of political intrigue.
		Note that, as the action of Richard III begins, the king is Richard's brother, Edward (Edward IV, whom Richard refers to as "This son of York" in the opening soliloquy).
		Edward came to the throne through the deposition of his kinsman, Henry VI, of the House of Lancaster, and in an early scene, Lady Anne, the widow of Henry's son Edward, follows her father-in-law's bier as the body is taken to burial.
	people.whitman.edu /~dipasqtm/richard3f01.htm (753 words)

	Renaissance Forum: Volume 4, Number 1, 1999: Emma Smith
		But if Wilkins's play was 'discovered', by stylometrics or other linguistic analysis, or even by external evidence, to be by Shakespeare, publishers would be falling over themselves to publish it, as is demonstrated by the example of King Edward III, also published in the New Cambridge Shakespeare series.
		Much of Melchiori's introduction is, inevitably, concerned with the play's authorship, and he argues that '[Shakespeare's] hand as collaborator can be detected in many scenes of the play, but his sole authorship of at least Act 2 is undeniable' (17).
		Analysing the play as a prelude to Shakespeare's second historical cycle which begins with Richard II, Melchiori finds in King Edward III patterns of reunion, advice, reformation and victory recognisable from the Henry IV plays and Henry V, and the introduction is more concerned with Shakespearean parallels than with the wider genre of history.
	www.hull.ac.uk /renforum/v4no1/smith.htm (1238 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 96054616 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Edward III is a major addition to the Shakespearean canon, and is published here for the first time in an authoritative edition of Shakespeare's works.
		Presenting this fully-annotated, modern-spelling text of Edward III, Giorgio Melchiori does not claim that Shakespeare is the sole author, but author of a significant part of the play, the extent of which is discussed in detail.
		The introduction explores the historical background and the genesis of the play in the context of contemporary theatrical practice and of Shakespeare's own early cycle of history plays.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam028/96054616.html (188 words)

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