Unless otherwise noted, quotations from the plays under discussion are taken from the following editions, with further citations included in-text. Titles of Shakespeare’s plays are occasionally abbreviated.

• The Oxford Shakespeare, general ed. Stanley Wells (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)

• King Edward III, ed. by Richard Proudfoot and Nicola Bennett, The Arden Shakespeare (London: Bloomsbury, 2017)

• Anon., Edmund Ironside, ed. by Eric Sams (New York: Fourth Estate Press, 1985)

• Anon., The Famous Victories of Henry V, Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria, online). https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/doc/H5_Q1M/index.html

• Anon., Thomas of Woodstock, ed. by George Parfitt and Simon Shepherd (London: Brynmill Press, 1988)

• Anon., The True Tragedy of Richard III, Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria, online). https://qme.internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/m/Library/Texts/TTR3/

• Greene, Robert, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, ed. by Daniel Seltzer (London: Regents Renaissance Drama Series, 1964)

• Greene, Robert, The Scottish History of James the Fourth, ed by. Norman Sanders, The Revels Plays (London: Methuen, 1970)

• Peele, George, King Edward the First, The Malone Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1911)

Spelling has been modernised except when unavoidable, as in a quotation from a scholar who has not modernised spelling. Web citations throughout were checked and accurate as of 30 September 2022.