Commentaries on
Shakespeare’s History Plays
Shakespeare, William. Edward III. (The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Modern Critical Edition. 477-542.)
*Note: the Oxford editors say attribution scholarship suggests that of the play’s 18 scenes, Shakespeare wrote Scene 2.90-627, Scene 3, and probably Scene 12. Edward III was published anonymously in 1596, but was not included in seventeenth-century Shakespeare folios. The other author, say the Oxford editors, might have been Kyd, Marlowe, or Peele.
Of Interest: Shakespeare Documented | The raigne of Edward the third (Folger) | John Eliot’s Discourses of War and Single Combat 1591 (Internet Archive) | Froissart’s Chronicles, Lord Berners’ transl. 4 vols. (HathiTrust) | Froissart’s Chronicles, Macaulay’s abridged ed. (Internet Archive) | Holinshed’s Chronicles, Edward III (Holinshed Project)
Encyclopedias/Lexica: Britannica.com | World History Encyclopedia | Wikipedia | Wiktionary | C. T. Onions’ Shakespeare Dictionary | A. Schmidt’s Shakespeare Dictionary | Concordance (Shakespeare Network)
Comprehensive Shakespeare: Folger Shakespeare Library | RSC Shakespeare’s Plays | Shakespeare-Online (Mabillard) | Internet Shakespeare Editions (U-Vic)
Text/Media Repositories: U-Penn Books Page | Holinshed Project | Early English Books (EEBO) | Renascence/Luminarium | Gutenberg | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | München Digital Lib. (MDZ) | Wikisource | Wikimedia Commons
English & European Royals: English Monarchy Timeline (Drake) | English Monarchs | Kings & Queens of Britain (Historic-UK) | Historic-UK.com | Shakespeare & History | Family Trees: Edward III / Neville / Percy (Hist. of Eng.) | Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford) |Burke’s Peerage | European Royal History | French Rulers 840 CE to Present (Thoughtco)
Hundred Years’ War: Medievalists.net | 100 Years’ War (Britannica) | 100 Years’ War (WHE) | 100 Years’ War Timeline
Wars of the Roses: Wars of the Roses.com | Key People | Battles Timeline | Battles (Brit. Battles) | Battles (Battlefields Trust) | R3 Society: Wars of the Roses | R3 House of York Timeline | History Extra
The Tudors: Tudor Society | TudorHistory.org | The Tudors (Eng-Heritage UK) | Life in Elizabethan England (M. Secara) | Elizabethan Era.org
My commentary on King Edward III should be posted sometime in March 2026.
Edition. Taylor, Gary et al., editors. The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works. Oxford UP, 2016. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-959115-2.