Cultural depictions of Edward the Black Prince

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Edward the Black Prince has been depicted in art, film, literature, plays and games.

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Plays

Edward the Black Prince features prominently as a character in Edward III , a sixteenth-century play possibly partly attributable to William Shakespeare.

Edward is referred to in Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry V .

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Clipper ship Black Prince

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery devoted his 1667 play The Black Prince to Edward.

The 1750 play Edward the Black Prince by William Shirley was performed at Drury Lane.

Novels

Art

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The statue of Edward the Black Prince in Leeds City Square

Films

Comics

Games

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References

  1. Interviewed by John Cullinan (2 December 1972). "The Art of Fiction No. 48, Anthony Burgess". Vol. Spring 1973, no. 56. Paris Review. Retrieved 19 September 2012.{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  2. Roberts, Adam; Anthony Burgess (2018). The Black Prince (New ed.). Unbound. ISBN   978-1-78352-647-5.
  3. Tibbetts, John C. The Furies of Marjorie Bowen. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2019. ISBN   9781476677163(p.124)
  4. Barker, Judith (1986). The Tournament in England, 1100–1400. Woodbridge: Boydell. p. 86.

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