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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Some Other Recent Editions of Edward III:

• Shakespeare's Edward III: An Early Play Restored to the Canon, Edited by Eric Sams, Yale University Press, 1996.
• The New Cambridge Shakespeare, Edited by Giorgio Melchiori, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
• in The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Second Edition, Edited by John Jowett, William Montgomery, Gary Taylor, Stanley Wells, Oxford University Press, 2005.
• in William Shakespeare & Others: Collaborative Plays, The RSC Shakespeare, Edited by Eric Rasmussen and Jonathan Bate, 2013.
• in The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition, Edited by Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, Gabriel Egan, Oxford University Press, 2016.

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare and Edward III:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• William Shakespeare, Edward III, first printed 1596.
• Shakespearean history.
• Shakespeare apocrypha.

Sources for Edward III:

• Jean Froissart (c.1337–c.1405), Froissart's Chronicles, Fourteenth Century.
  • The Chronicle of Froissart. Translated by John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners. Introduction by William Paton Ker. In Six Volumes. London: David Nutt, 1901-1903. First published in 1523–1525.
    [Archive.org: Vol 1 of 6; Vol 2 of 6; Vol 3 of 6; Vol 4 of 6; Vol 5 of 6; Vol 6 of 6.]
  • John Froissart. Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries, from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Translated by Thomas Johnes. In Two Volumes. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849.
    [Archive.org: Vol 1 of 2; Vol 2 of 2.]
  • Jean Froissart. Chronicles. Translated and Edited by Geoffrey Brereton. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978.
    [Publisher USA; Publisher UK; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Painter (c.1540–1595), The Palace of Pleasure, 1566; second edition 1575.
• Raphael Holinshed (c.1525–1580?), Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577; revised 1587.

English Renaissance Drama:

• English Renaissance, Sixteenth Century.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English Renaissance theatre.

Historical Events:

• England in the Middle Ages, Fifth Century to Fifteenth Century.
• England in the Late Middle Ages, from the Thirteenth Century, the end of the Angevins, and the accession of Henry III until the accession to the throne of the Tudor dynasty in 1485.
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• Wars of Scottish Independence, late Thirteenth and early Fourteenth Centuries.
• Auld Alliance, alliance between Scotland and France, 1295–1560.
• First War of Scottish Independence, 1296–1328.
• Second War of Scottish Independence, 1332–1357.
• Second War of Scottish Independence: Edward III invades: 1333 – 1334.
• Siege of Berwick (1333).
• Battle of Neville's Cross, 17 October 1346; the English capture David II.
• Treaty of Berwick (1357).
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• Hundred Years' War, 1337–1453.
  Major phases:
  • the Edwardian War, 1337–1360.
  • the Caroline War, 1369–1389.
  • the Lancastrian War, 1415–1453.
• Battle of Sluys, 24 June 1340.
• Battle of Crécy, 26 August 1346.
• Siege of Calais (1346–1347).
• Battle of Poitiers, 19 September 1356.
• Jacquerie, northern France peasant revolt, 1358.
• Treaty of Brétigny, drafted on 8 May 1360, ratified on 24 October 1360.

Historical People:

• Edward III of England (1312–1377), King of England 1327–1377.
• Philippa of Hainault (c.1310/1315–1369), wife of Edward III; Queen consort of England 1328–1369.
• Edward the Black Prince (1330–1376), Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince; eldest son of Edward III; father of Richard of Bordeaux (Richard II).
• Joan of Kent (1326/7–1385); wife of Edward the Black Prince; mother of Richard of Bordeaux (1367–1400), Richard II of England.
• Order of the Garter, established in 1348 by Edward III.
• Catherine Grandison, Countess of Salisbury (c.1304–1349).
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• Robert the Bruce (1274–1329), King of Scotland 1306–1329.
• David II of Scotland (1324–1371), King of Scotland 1329–1371; David was captured by the English at the Battle of Neville's Cross, 17 October 1346 and ransomed in 1357 (Treaty of Berwick (1357)).
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• Philip VI of France (1293–1350), King of France 1328–1350; House of Valois.
• John II of France (1319–1364), King of France 1350–1364; captured by the English at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.
• Charles V of France (1338–1380), Dauphin 1350–1364; King of France 1364–1380.

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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Other Articles:

• Petr Plechac, "Relative contributions of Shakespeare and Fletcher in Henry VIII: An Analysis Based on Most Frequent Words and Most Frequent Rhythmic Patterns," arXiv.org, 30 October 2019.

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