Edward III (play)
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The Raigne of King Edward the Third, often shortened to Edward III, is an Elizabethan play printed anonymously in 1596, and possibly at least partly written by William Shakespeare. It began to be incl
Title page of the first quarto (1596)
Edward the Black Prince (David Mendelsohn) in the American professional premiere of Edward III, staged by Pacific Repertory Theatre in August 2001
The 1599 Second Quarto of the play
Rhiannon Lattimer as Ned the Black Prince, with Ben Forer as his father Edward III, in Hudson Shakespeare Company's production of King Edward III
Shakespeare's sonnets
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William Shakespeare wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first published all togeth
Edward III (play)
…sophisticated as any of Shakespeare's early histories, especially King John and the Henry VI plays. In addition, passages in the play are direct quotes from Shakespeare's sonnets, most notably the line "lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds" (sonnet 94) and the phrase "scarlet ornaments", used in sonnet 142. Stylistic…
Thomas Thorpe's edition of the sonnets (1609)
Dedication page from The Sonnets
William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
Sonnet 30 as a wall poem in Leiden