The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9]

Chapter 200: NOTE II.

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The volume presents a connected sequence of historical dramas that dramatize the disintegration of centralized power and the violent struggle among rival claimants for the crown. Through scenes of political intrigue, popular unrest, pitched battles, and calculated betrayals, it shows how shifting alliances and personal ambition accelerate dynastic collapse and reshape leadership. The plays interweave public spectacle with intimate moments of downfall and remorse, exploring themes of legitimacy, governance, and the human cost of civil war. Scholarly apparatus accompanies the texts, offering prefatory and editorial commentary, variant readings, and notes on publication history.

NOTES TO
THE TRUE TRAGEDIE OF
RICHARD DUKE OF YORKE.

NOTE I.

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XX. 15. Mr Halliwell quotes ‘and walkes’ as the reading of the edition of 1619. Capell’s copy has ‘my walkes.’ In Steevens’s reprint the reading ‘and walkes’ occurs, and Mr Knight has followed him. See note IV to ‘The First part of the Contention,’ &c.

NOTE II.

XXII. 79, 80. Instead of these lines Q₃ has

‘King Henry, and the Prince his sonne are gone,

And Clarence thou art next must follow them,

So by one and one dispatching all the rest, &c.’