num_pages: 241
description: Edward III was first published, anonymously, in 1596. Though most scholars now discern Shakespeare's hand in the play, academic uncertainties over 'collaboration', 'plagiarism' and 'memorial reconstruction' have kept it firmly outside the canon. Now Eric Sams, whose The Real Shakespeare confirmed the playwright as a writer of popular plays from an early age as well as an assiduous reviser of his own work, offers a fastidious new edition that authenticates Edward III as Shakespeare's own, unaided work.As well as Shakespeare's full text, this edition includes a detailed synopsis, copious notes for the general reader, and a conspectus of previous commentary. In particular it presents a close analysis of many hundreds of resemblances classified under some thirty headings (such as antithesis, Biblical and classical reference, imagery, favourite topics, vocabulary, word-play, manuscript characteristics, and canonical parallels) that together identify the author beyond reasonable doubt. Four hundred years after its first appearance, Edward III is at last restored to the stage, the literary world, the public, and to William Shakespeare himself.
language: English
title: Edward III
titlecomplete: Edward III
characters: Another Captain, William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine, John of Bohemia, Lodwick, William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, David II, King of Scots, Edward the Black Prince, Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Captain of Calais, John IV, Duke of Brittany, Mariner, Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy, James Audley, Charles V of France, Villiers, Catherine Grandison, Countess of Salisbury, Gobin de Grace, John de Coupland, Edward III of England, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, Philippa of Hainault, Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, Robert III of Artois, John II of France, Polonian Captain, Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick
genres: Literature, British Literature, Theatre, 16th Century, Drama, Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Plays, Poetry
ratings_count: 880
publisher: Yale University Press