Richardus Tertius
Richardus Tertius is a play written in
Robert Greene
.
The play was never printed in its historical era (in fact, not until 1844); but it survives in nine manuscripts,Shakespeare's Richard III. In one view, the unknown author of The True Tragedy used Legge's play occasionally as a source, but Shakespeare did not.[2]
References
- E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage, 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923; Vol. 3, p. 408.
- ^ Robert J. Lordi, "The Relationship of Richardus Tertius to the Main Richard III Plays," Boston University Studies in English Vol. 5 (1961), pp. 139-53.
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