文档介绍：King Edward the Third
King Edward the Third
Shakespeare
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King Edward the Third
PERSONS REPRESENTED.
EDWARD THE THIRD, King of England. EDWARD, Prince of Wales,
his Son. Earl of WARWICK. Earl of DERBY. Earl of SALISBURY. Lord
AUDLEY. Lord PERCY. LODOWICK, Edward's Confident. Sir
WILLIAM MOUNTAGUE. Sir JOHN COPLAND. Two ESQUIRES, and
a HERALD, English. ROBERT, styling himself Earl, of Artois. Earl of
MONTFORT, and GOBIN DE GREY. JOHN, King of France. CHARLES,
and PHILIP, his Sons. Duke of LORRAIN. VILLIERS, a French Lord.
King of BOHEMIA, Aid to King John. A POLISH CAPTAIN, Aid to King
John. Six CITIZENS of Calais. A CAPTAIN, and A POOR INHABITANT,
of the same. Another CAPTAIN. A MARINER. Three HERALDS; and
Four other FRENCHMEN. DAVID, King of Scotland. Earl DOUGLAS;
and Two MESSENGERS, Scotch.
PHILIPPA, Edward's Queen. Countess of SALISBURY. A FRENCH
WOMAN.
Lords, and divers other Attendants; Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, &c.
Scene, dispers'd; in England, Flanders, and France.
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King Edward the Third
ACT I.
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King Edward the Third
SCENE I. London. A Room of State in the
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[Enter King Edward, Derby, Prince Edward, Audley, and Artois.]
KING EDWARD. Robert of Artois, banished though thou be >From
France, thy native Country, yet with us Thou shalt retain as great a
Seigniorie: For we create thee Earl of Richmond here. And now go
forwards with our pedigree: Who next eeded Phillip le Bew?
ARTOIS. Three sons of his, which all essfully Did sit upon their
father's regal Throne, Yet died, and left no issue of their loins.
KING EDWARD. But was my mother sister unto those?
ARTOIS. She was, my Lord; and only Isabel Was all the daughters
that this Phillip had, Whom afterward your father took to wife; And from
the fragrant garden of her womb Your gracious self, the flower of Europe's
hope, Derived is inheritor to France. But note the rancor of rebellious
minds: When thus the lineage of le Bew was out, The Fren