Thomas of Woodstock (play)

Thomas of Woodstock and Richard the Second Part One are two names for an untitled, anonymous and apparently incomplete manuscript of an Elizabethan play depicting events in the reign of King Richard II. Attributions of the play to William Shakespeare have been nearly universally rejected, and it does not appear in major editions of the Shakespeare apocrypha.[1] The play has been often cited as a possible influence on Shakespeare's Richard II, as well as Henry IV, Parts 1[2] and 2,[3] but new dating of the text brings that relationship into question.

  1. ^ Brooke, C. F. Tucker, The Shakespeare Apocrypha Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1918; Kozlenko, William,Disputed Plays of William Shakespeare, New York: Hawthorne Publishers, 1974
  2. ^ The Riverside Shakespeare at 842, 2000 (2nd ed. 1997)
  3. ^ Corbin, Peter, and Douglas Sedge. (2002) Thomas of Woodstock: or, Richard II, Part One, Manchester University Press, p. 4.