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King Edward III

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Edward III and the Black Prince (14thc., Anon). Picture and data courtesy of the Yorck Project, under Creative Commons Attribution-Share- Alike License (Wikipedia)

STAGING KING EDWARD III

Increasingly this anonymous play is believed to be at least partly by Shakespeare. It certainly contains the last line from his Sonnet 94: "Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds." The king's attempted seduction of the Countess of Salibury in the first two acts is generally felt to be Shakespearean in tone and style. Later, the father/son relationship of Edward III and the Black Prince anticipates effects in Henry IV's treatment of his son Prince Hal, and there is even a northern youth akin to Hotspur, who with-holds his Scottish prisoners. The script may have dropped from visibility during the reign of the Scottish-born King James 1 because of its anti-Scottish tone. Editions of the play now appear in the Oxford, Cambridge, and Arden single-Shakespeare-play series. The R.S.C.'s 2002 production was well received. HMR

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Billington, Michael, Edward III [RSC production, 2002, Director: Anthony Clark] Guardian , London, @6 April 2002, p.16; 27 ap[ril, 2002, p. 17.

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Clark, Anthony, director, Edward III . R.S.C. production, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 4/10-9/14/02; Gielgud Theatre, London, 12/24/02-3/22/03.

Davidson, Jazz, director. Edward III , production of the National America Shakespeare Co., Knightsbridge Theatre, Pasadena, CA, 3/29-6/9/03.

Duncan Jones, Katherine. Edward III [RSC production, 2002, Director: Anthony Clark] TLS 3 May 2002.

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Ingram, Loveday, director, Edward III, produced by the Savoy, London, 10/16/94.

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McAllister, Heather Anne; McAllister, Kelly, directors. Edward III, produced by the Hope Theater at the Bank Street Theater, Greenwich Village, New York, July 2001.

Melchiori. Giorgio, 'the Play on the Stage', in Georgio Melchiori, editor, King Edward III, pp. 45-51, Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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