Richardus Tertius

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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

  1. E. K. Chambers
    , The Elizabethan Stage, 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923; Vol. 3, p. 408.
  2. ^ 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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