King Edward III by William Shakespeare - Apocryphal (Illustrated)

By William Shakespeare

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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781786563095

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

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The Complete Works of

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

VOLUME 43 OF 74

King Edward  III

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2012

Version 6

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‘King Edward  III’

William Shakespeare: Parts Edition (in 74 parts)

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William Shakespeare: Parts Edition

This eBook is Part 43 of the Delphi Classics edition of William Shakespeare in 74 Parts. It features the unabridged text of King Edward  III from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of William Shakespeare, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

IN 74 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Plays

1, Henry  VI, Part 2

2, Henry  VI, Part 3

3, Henry  VI, Part 1

4, Richard  III

5, The Comedy of Errors

6, Titus Andronicus

7, Taming of the Shrew

8, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

9, Love’s Labour’s Lost

10, Romeo and Juliet

11, Richard II

12, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

13, King John

14, The Merchant of Venice

15, Henry IV, Part I

16, Henry IV, Part II

17, Much Ado About Nothing

18, Henry V

19, Julius Caesar

20, As You Like It

21, Twelfth Night

22, Hamlet

23, The Merry Wives of Windsor

24, Troilus and Cressida

25, All’s Well that Ends Well

26, Measure for Measure

27, Othello

28, King Lear

29, Macbeth

30, Antony and Cleopatra

31, Coriolanus

32, Timon of Athens

33, Pericles

34, Cymbeline

35, The Winter’s Tale

36, The Tempest

37, Henry  VIII

38, The Two Noble Kinsmen

The Lost Plays

39, The Lost Plays

The Sources

40, The Plays’ Sources

The Apocryphal Plays

41, Arden of Faversham

42, The Birth of Merlin

43, King Edward  III

44, Locrine

45, The London Prodigal

46, The Puritan

47, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy

48, Sir John Oldcastle

49, Thomas Lord Cromwell

50, A Yorkshire Tragedy

51, Sir Thomas More

52, Fair Em

53, Mucedorus

54, The Merry Devil of Edmonton

55, Edmund Ironside

56, Thomas of Woodstock

57, Vortigern and Rowena

The Adaptations

58, Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

The Poetry

59, The Sonnets

60, Venus and Adonis

61, The Rape of Lucrece

62, The Passionate Pilgrim

63, The Phoenix and the Turtle

64, A Lover’s Complaint

The Apocryphal Poetry

65, To the Queen

66, A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter

67, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music

The Criticism

68, The Criticism

The Biographies

69, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear by Nicholas Rowe

70, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters by Henry Norman Hudson

71, Life of William Shakespeare by Sir Sidney Lee

72, Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London by Arthur Acheson

73, The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner

Resources

74, Resources

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King Edward  III

This play was printed anonymously in 1596 and is now believed to be partly written by Shakespeare. The play contains many gibes at Scotland and the Scottish people, which has led some critics to think that it is the work that incited George Nicolson, Queen Elizabeth’s agent in Edinburgh, to protest against the portrayal of Scots on the London stage in a 1598 letter to William Cecil, Lord Burghley. This would explain why the play was not included in the First Folio of Shakespeare’s works, which was published after the Scottish King James had succeeded to the English throne in 1603.

Like most of Shakespeare’s history plays, the source is Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles, while Jean Froissart’s Chronicles is also a major source for this play.

The 1596 Quarto printing

King Edward III (1312-1377)

CONTENTS

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

ACT I. SCENE I. London. A Room of State in the Palace. Flourish.

ACT I. SCENE II. Roxborough. Before the Castle.

ACT II. SCENE I. The Same. Gardens of the Castle.

ACT II. SCENE II. The Same. A Room in the Castle.

ACT III. SCENE I. Flanders. The French Camp.

ACT III. SCENE II. Picardy. Fields near Cressi.

ACT III. SCENE III. The same. Drums.

ACT III. SCENE IV. The Same.

ACT III. SCENE V. The Same.

ACT IV. SCENE I. Bretagne. Camp of the English.

ACT IV. SCENE II. Picardy. The English Camp before Calais.

ACT IV. SCENE III. Poitou. Fields near Poitiers. The French camp; Tent of the Duke of Normandy.

ACT IV. SCENE IV. The same. The English Camp.

ACT IV. SCENE V. The same. The French Camp.

ACT IV. SCENE VI. The same. A Part of the Field of Battle.

ACT IV. SCENE VII. The same. Another Part of the Field of Battle.

ACT IV. SCENE VIII. The same. Another Part of the Field of Battle.

ACT IV. SCENE IX. The same. The English Camp.

ACT V. SCENE I. Picardy. The English Camp before Calais.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

EDWARD THE THIRD, King of England.

EDWARD, Prince of Wales, his Son.

Earl of WARWICK.

Earl of DERBY.

Earl of SALISBURY.

Lord AUDLEY.

Lord PERCY.

LODOWICK, Edward’s Confident.

Sir WILLIAM MOUNTAGUE.

Sir JOHN COPLAND.

Two ESQUIRES, and a HERALD, English.

ROBERT, styling himself Earl, of Artois.

Earl of MONTFORT, and

GOBIN DE GREY.

JOHN, King of France.

CHARLES, and PHILIP, his Sons.

Duke of LORRAIN.

VILLIERS, a French Lord.

King of BOHEMIA, Aid to King John.

A POLISH CAPTAIN, Aid to King John.

Six CITIZENS of Calais.

A CAPTAIN, and

A POOR INHABITANT, of the same.

Another CAPTAIN.

A MARINER.

Three HERALDS; and

Four other FRENCHMEN.

DAVID, King of Scotland.

Earl DOUGLAS; and

Two MESSENGERS, Scotch.

PHILIPPA, Edward’s Queen.

Countess of SALISBURY.

A FRENCH WOMAN.

Lords, and divers other Attendants; Heralds, Officers,

Soldiers, &c.

Scene, dispers’d; in England, Flanders, and France.

ACT I. SCENE I. London. A Room of State in the Palace. Flourish.