Thomas of Woodstock by William Shakespeare - Apocryphal (Illustrated)

By William Shakespeare (Apocryphal)

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781786563224

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The Complete Works of

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

VOLUME 56 OF 74

Thomas of Woodstock

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2012

Version 6

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‘Thomas of Woodstock’

William Shakespeare: Parts Edition (in 74 parts)

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William Shakespeare: Parts Edition

This eBook is Part 56 of the Delphi Classics edition of William Shakespeare in 74 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Thomas of Woodstock 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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Thomas of Woodstock

OR

RICHARD THE SECOND PART ONE

This incomplete manuscript depicts events in the reign of King Richard II. Some scholars have attributed the work to Shakespeare, though it does not usually appear in the major editions of Shakespeare’s Apocrypha. The play is often cited as being a probable influence upon Shakespeare’s Richard II, as well as possibly his Henry IV plays.  It depicts events immediately prior to Richard II and provides explanations for the behaviour of many of Shakespeare’s characters in that play.

Richard II

CONTENTS

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Act I, Scene 1 [A house near London]

Act I, Scene 2 [A house near London]

Act I, Scene 3: London, the Court]

Act II, Scene 1

Act II, Scene 2: Westminster]

Act II, Scene 3: The Queen’s apartment, Westminster]

Act III, Scene 1

Act III, Scene 2: Plashey House, Essex]

Act III, Scene 3: The market square, Dunstable]

Act IV, Scene 1

Act IV, Scene 2: Plashey House, Essex]

Act IV, Scene 3: Sheen House.]

Act V, Scene 1

Act V, Scene 2: Open country]

Act V, Scene 3: Open country]

Act V, Scene 4: Open Country]

Act V, Scene 5: Open Country]

Act V, Scene 6: Open country]

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester and Lord Protector of England

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster

Edmund of Langley, Duke of York (Uncles to King Richard II)

Earl of Arundel, Lord Admiral of England

Earl of Surrey

Sir Thomas Cheyney

King Richard II

Sir Henry Greene, a favourite of King Richard’s

Sir Edward Bagot, another favourite

Sir William Bushy, another favourite

Sir Robert Tresilian, a lawyer

Nimble, a lawyer’s devil

Crosby, a law officer

Fleming, a law officer

Richard Exton, Lord Mayor of London

Simon Ignorance, Bailiff of Dunstable

Cowtail, a grazier

Cynthia, a personage in a masque

Sheriff (Shrieve) of Kent

Sheriff (Shrieve) of Northumberland

Lapoole, Governor of Calais

The Ghost of the Black Prince

The Ghost of King Edward III

Anne of Bohemia, Queen of England

Duchess of Gloucester, wife of Thomas of Woodstock

Duchess of Ireland

Also Servants, Maids, Courtiers, Law-officers, Soldiers, Archers, Knights

Act I, Scene 1 [A house near London]

Omnes

Lights, lights, bring torches, knaves!

Lancaster

Shut to the gates,

Let no man out until the house be searched.

York

Call for our coaches, let us away good brother

Now by the blest saints, I fear we are poisoned all.

Arundel

Poisoned my Lord?

Lancaster

Ay, ay, good Arundel, it is high time begone.

May heaven be blest for this prevention.

York

God, for thy mercy! would our cousin King

So cozen us, to poison us in our meat?

Lancaster

Has no man here some helping antidote

For fear already we have taken some dram?

What thinkest thou, Cheyney, thou first broughtst the

Tidings. are we not poisoned, thinkest thou?

Cheyney

Fear not, my Lords.

That mischievous potion was as yet unserved.

It was a liquid bane dissolved in wine

Which after supper should have been caroused

To young King Richard’s health.

Lancaster

Good in faith! are his Uncles’ deaths become

Health to King Richard? how came it out?

Sir Thomas Cheyney, pray resolve us.

Cheyney

A Carmelite friar, my Lord, revealed the plot

And should have acted it, but touched in conscience

He came to your good brother, the Lord Protector,

And so disclosed it; who straight sent me to you.

York

The Lord protect him for it, ay, and our cousin

King. high heaven be judge, we wish all good to him.

Lancaster

A heavy charge, good Woodstock, hast thou had

To be protector to so wild a prince

So far degenerate from his noble father

Whom the trembling French the black prince called

Not of a swart and melancholy brow

(For sweet and lovely was his countenance)

But that he made so many funeral days

In mournful France: the warlike battles won

At Crecy field, Poitiers, Artoise and Maine

Made all France groan under his conquering arm.

But heaven forestalled his diadem on earth

To place him with a royal crown in heaven.

Rise may his dust to glory! ere he would have done

A deed so base unto his enemy,

Much less unto the brothers of his father,

He would first have lost his royal blood in drops,

Dissolved the strings of his humanity

And lost that livelihood that was preserved

To make his (unlike) son a wanton King.

York

Forbear, good John-of-Gaunt; believe me, brother

We may do wrong unto our cousin King.

I fear his flattering minions more than him.

Lancaster

By the blest virgin, noble Edmund York

I am past all patience. poison his subjects,

His royal Uncles! why, the proud Castilian

Where John-of-Gaunt writes King and sovereign,

Would not throw off their vild and servile yoke

By treachery so base. patience, gracious Heaven!

Arundel

A