THE PLAYS

The Arden Shakespeare. London, various editors and dates. (For Edward III: Elizabethan History Plays (ed.) William A. Armstrong, OUP 1965.

CONTEMPORARY WORKS

Adam of Usk. Chronicle, 1377–1421. Tr. and ed. E. M. Thompson, London 1904.

Anon. The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth. 1594? — 8.

Anon. The First English Life of Henry V. Ed. C. L. Kingsford, Oxford 1911.

Anon. Gesta Henrici Quinti. An account by an unknown chaplain to Henry V, ed. B. Williams for the English Historical Society, London 1830.

Anon. Historie of the Arrivall of King Edward IV. Ed. J. Bruce, Camden Society, London 1838.

Chandos Herald, The. Life of the Black Prince. Tr. and ed. M. K. Pope and E. C. Lodge, London 1910.

Commynes, Philippe de. Mémoires. Ed. J. Calmette and G. Durville, 3 vols, Paris 1924–5.

Croyland Chronicle, The. Historiae Croylandensis Continuatio. Tr. H. T. Riley as Ingulph’s Chronicles, London 1893.

Daniel, Samuel. The First Fowre Bookes of the ciuile warns between the two houses of Lancaster and Yorke. In Complete Works in Verse and Prose, ed. A. B. Grosart, London 1885.

Fabyan, Robert. The New Chronicles of England and France. 1516, republished by Sir Henry Ellis, 1816.

Fox, John. Actes and Monuments. Repr. 1843–9.

Froissart, Jean. The Chronicle of Froissart translated out of French by Sir John Bourchier Lord Bemers. With introduction by W. P. Ker, London 1903.

— Chronicle. Eng tr. abridged by G. Brereton, London 1968.

Great Chronicle of London, The. Ed. A. H. Thomas and I. D. Thorney, London 1938.

Hall, Edward. Chronicle of the Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke. 1542, 1548, 1550. (Reprinted London 1809)

Holinshed, Raphael. Thefirste volume of the chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande. 2nd edn, 1587. (See Nicoll, below)

Jean de Venette. Chronicle. Tr. J. Birdsall. Ed. R. A. Newhall, New York 1953.

Knighton, Henry. Compilatio de eventibus Angliae. Ed. J. R. Lumby. Rolls Series, London 1889–95. (Fifth book, by another author, coven the reign of Richard II.)

Mancini, Dominic. De occupatione Regni Angliae per Riccardum Tercium. Tr. and ed. C. A. J. Armstrong, Oxford 1969. Monstrelet, Enguerrand de. Chronique. Ed. L. Douet d’Arcq for the Société de l’Histoire de France, 6 vols, Paris 1857–62.

More, Sir Thomas. The History of King Richard the Third. In The Complete Works of Sir Thomas More, vol. II. Ed. R. S. Sylvester, Yale 1963.

Paston Letters, 1422–150Q. Ed. J. Gairdner, Rolls Series, 1858.

Polydore Vergil. Three Books of Polydore Vergil’s English History. Ed. H. Ellis, Camden Society, London 1844.

— The Anglica Historia of Polydore Vergil, AD 1485–1573. Tr. and ed. D. Hay, Camden Series 1950.

Saint-Rémy. Chronique de Jean le Fèvre, Seigneur de Saint-Rêmy. Ed. F. Morand, Paris 1876.

Titus Livius Forojuliensis. The 1 st English Life of Henry V, written 1513 by the Translator of Livius’. Ed. C. L. Kingsford, Oxford 1911.

Walsingham, Thomas. HistoriaAnglicana, 1272–1422. Ed. H. T. Riley, 2 vols, Rolls Series, London 1863–4.

— Chronicon Angliae, 1322–88. Ed. E. M. Thompson, Rolls Series, London 1874.

— Annales Ricardi Secundi. Ed. H. T. Riley, Rolls Series, London, 1866.

Waurin, Jean de. Recueil des chroniques. Ed. W. and E. Hardy, London 1872–3.

MODERN WORKS

Bagley, J. J. Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England. London.

Barber, Richard. Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine: A Biography of the Black Prince. London 1978.

Black, M. W. The Sources of Richard II. J. Q. Adams Memorial Studies, Washington 1948.

Bullough, Geoffrey. Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare. London 1960.

Burgess, Anthony. Shakespeare. London 1970.

The Cambridge Medieval History, vol. vii. Cambridge 1932.

Campbell, Lily B. Shakespeare’s ‘Histories’: Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy. San Marino, California, 1947.

Christie, Mabel E. Henry VI. London 1922.

Churchill, G. B. Richard III up to Shakespeare. Berlin 1900.

Clarke, М. V. Fourteenth Century Studies. Oxford 1937.

The Dictionary of National Biography.

Elton, G. R. England under the Tudors. 3rd edn, London 1997.

Gillingham, John. The Wars of the Roses: Peace and Conflict in Fifteenth-Century England. London 1981.

Goodman, Anthony. A History of England from Edward II toJames I. London 1977.

Hanham, A. Richard III and His Early Historians. Oxford 1975.

Hutchison, Harold F. The Hollow Crown: A Life of Richard II. London 1961.

— Henry V: A Biography. London 1967.

Jacob, E. F. The Fifteenth Century, 1399–1485. Oxford 1961.

Johnson, Paul. The Life and Times of Edward III. London 1973.

Kantorowicz, E. H. The Kings’s Two Bodies. Princeton 1957.

Kendall, P. M. Warwick the Kingmaker. London 1957.

— Richard III. London 1955.

Kirby, J. L. Henry IV of England. London 1970.

The London Encyclopaedia. Ed. Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert, London 1983.

McKisack, May. The Fourteenth Century, 1307–1399. Oxford 1959.

McLeod, Enid. Charles of Orleans: Prince and Poet. London 1969.

Mathew, Gervase. The Court of Richard II. London 1968.

Metz, G. Harold. Sources of Four Plays Ascribed to Shakespeare. London 1989.

Murray, Margaret. Witchcraft in Western Europe. Oxford 1921. Nicoll, A. & J., eds. Holinshed’s Chronicle as Used in Shakespeare’s Plays. London 1927.

Packe, M. and Seaman, L. C. B. King Edward III. London 1983.

Pollard, A.J. The Wars of the Roses. London 1988.

— Richard III and the Princes. London 1991.

Ross, C. Edward IV. London 1974.

— The Wars of the Roses. London 1976.

— Richard III. London 1981.

Rowse, A. L. The Annotated Shakespeare. London 1978. — Bosworth Field and the Wars of the Roses. London 1966. Saul, Nigel. Richard II. London 1997.

Senior, Michael. The Life and Times of Richard II. London 1981. Seward, Desmond. Richard III. London 1982.

A Shakespeare Encyclopaedia. Ed. O. J. Campbell and E. G. Quinn. London 1966.

Sprague, A. C. Shakespeare’s Histories: Plays for the Stage. London 1964. Steel, A. Richard II. Cambridge 1941.

Stubbs, William. A Constitutional History of England. 3 vols, Oxford 1874–8.

Tillyard, E. M. W. Shakespeare’s History Plays. London 1944. Trevelyan, G. M. England in the Age of Wycliffe. 4th edn, London 1909.

Tuchman, Barbara. A Distant Mirror. London 1978.

Walpole, Horace. Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard III. London 1768.

Weir, Alison. The Wars of the Roses. London 1995.

— The Princes in the Tower. London 1992.

Wilson, J. Dover, ed. Richard II. Cambridge 1951.

Wylie, J. H. History of England under Henry the Fourth. 4 vols, London 1884–98.

Ziegler, P. The Black Death. London 1969.