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- Bevan, Bryan. King Richard
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- Boswell-Stone, W.G., ed.
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- Harvey, John. The
        Plantaganets. London: Severn House Publishers, 1976.
      
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- Holinshed, Raphael.
        Holinshed's Chronicle, as Used in Shakespeare's
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        London: J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1959.
      
- Holinshed, Raphael.
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        "King Lear," "Cymbeline," and "Macbeth". Ed Richard
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- Myers, A.R. Crown, Household
        and Parliament in Fifteenth Century England. Ed Cecil
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- Nameri, Dorothy E..
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        Universität Salzburg, 1976.
      
- Norwich, John Julius.
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- Pallister, Anne. Magna
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- Palmer, M.D.. Henry
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- Pollard, A.J.. The Wars of
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- Potter, Jeremy. Good King
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        London: Constable, 1983.
      
- Rackin, Phyllis. Stages
        of History: Shakespeare's English Chronicles. Ithaca,
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- Ribner, Irving. The
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- Ross, James
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- Saccio, Peter.
        Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and
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- Saccio, Peter.
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- Salisbury,
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- Senior, Michael. The Life
        and Times of Richard II. London: Weidenfeld and
        Nicolson, 1981.
      
- Seward, Desmond. Henry V
        as Warlord. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987.
      
- Shakespeare, William.
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        the Elizabethan Stage. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1990.
      
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        Century (1399-1485). London: Longmans Green & Co,
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- Wolffe, Bertram. Henry
        Vi. London: Eyre Methuen, 1981.