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Thomas of Woodstock by William Shakespeare - Apocryphal (Illustrated) - William Shakespeare (Apocryphal)
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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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
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