Saturday, February 22, 2020

Shakespeare [and others], King Edward III (2017)

William Shakespeare [and others].
King Edward the Third.
Edited by Richard Proudfoot and Nicola Bennett.
The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series.
London: Bloomsbury, 2017.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series; Wikipedia.

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In their Introduction Proudfoot and Bennett summarize the scholarship regarding the collaborative authorship of Edward III. Scholars speculate that Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) wrote the initial draft, perhaps with Thomas Kyd (1558–1594). Other co-author candidates include Thomas Nashe (1567–c.1601) and Robert Greene (1558–1592). Shakespeare is thought to have revised and written sections of Edward III, especially Scenes 2 and 3 (the generally ahistorical Countess episode) and Scene 12. In recent decades n-gram analysis has contributed to the evidence of Marlowe's and Shakespeare's involvement with the play. However, the novice reader can easily recognize the distinctively Shakespearean language of the Countess episode and Scene 12.

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare and Edward III:
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For more on this period of English history see my post for Holmes, The Later Middle Ages, 1272-1485 (1966).

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Some Historical Background Reading:
  • John Julius Norwich. Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337–1485. New York: Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 2001.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • George Holmes. The Later Middle Ages, 1272-1485. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1966.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    My post for Holmes, The Later Middle Ages, 1272-1485 (1966) is here.
  • M.H. Keen. England in the Later Middle Ages: A Political History, Second Edition. London: Routledge, 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Desmond Seward. The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    My post for Seward, The Hundred Years War (1999) is here.
  • Jean Froissart. Chronicles. Translated and Edited by Geoffrey Brereton. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978.
    [Publisher USA; Publisher UK; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    My post for Froissart, Chronicles (1978) is here.
  • Scott L. Waugh. England in the Reign of Edward III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    My post for Waugh, England in the Reign of Edward III (1991) is here.
  • Christopher Allmand. The Hundred Years War: England and France at War c.1300–c.1450. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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