Talk:Edward III (play)

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[edit] Questions

This is a really interesting article, and I don't want to touch it myself as I don't know enough about it. However, I have two questions:

  • I understood that Shakespeare was only thought to be co-author of this play with some other unknown playwright.
  • The article seems to imply that the play is now universally accepted as being by Shakespeare, but I think there is still some debate over it.

Could we hear more about the history of its discovery, so as to shed light on these two points? Deb 22:02 Feb 10, 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Plays not by Shakespeare?

I teach 10th grade English in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Over the past several weeks I have had several debates with a certain student (you know the kind) that swears by the moon that Shakespeare didn't write a lick of his plays. He states that all of the plays were plagerized and Shakespeare was a hack.

I don't know how accurate articles on Wikipedia are, but this interests me greatly. It is interesting that perhaps all this talk about Shakespeare's Plagerism is just puffing up these two plays that he may not have wrote the enterty of but just helped on. It will be interesting to bring this point up in class.

More information if anyone has it.

Dante

I would be fascinated to hear this student's opinion of Plutarch's Lives, Holinshed's Chronicles, King Leir, Arthur Brooke's Romeo and Juliet poem and all the other works that Shakespeare 'simply plagiarized'. This student must have a lot of respect for these works and must know them in a lot of detail for him/her to be so certain that Shakespeare simply copied them without changing anything. It must be wonderful to be as well-read as this student. The Singing Badger 23:09, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] edward iii- not the play.

i want to know about the man not the play! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.179.118.24 (talk) 17:00, 8 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] The criteria against Shakespeare and against his authorship of some plays is flimsy

The most recent version of the Riverside Shakespeare includes Edward III in it. Furthermore, I just want to examine some of the issues with this play (and with Cardenio):

1) It was published anonymously (although this was not uncommon in the 1590s).

The point was already made for me, it was not uncommon in the 1590s for plays to be untitled.

2) It is not mentioned in Francis Meres' Palladis Tamia (1598), a work that lists most of Shakespeare's early plays.

Not every play Shakespeare wrote had to be listed in a book for him to have written it.

3) John Heminges and Henry Condell did not include the play when they compiled the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays in 1623.

They also failed to include Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The Two Noble Kinsmen which we now know as plays written by Shakespeare.

4) Many critics view the play as not worthy of Shakespeare's writing ability.

No one not even Shakespeare) can a hit a home run every time. Honestly, the man wrote Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest and Twelfth Night but he is still human -- he should be permitted mistakes.

Just some thoughts.

Ladb2000