Edmund Ironside (play)

Ironside battles Canute, an illustration of the actual history the play is based on. From the Chronica Majora of Matthew Paris, in the Parker Library, Cambridge.

Edmund Ironside, or War Hath Made All Friends is an anonymous Elizabethan play that depicts the life of the Anglo-Saxon king Edmund II of England. At least three critics have suggested that it is an early work by William Shakespeare.