A review by cagebox
King Edward III by William Shakespeare

1.0

This play is tangentially a work of Shakespeare play and is by far the worst play to have any sort of connection with him. It is thought he helped write the work or at least a part of it, but the play doesn't feel like Shakespeare at all. The prose doesn't flow, the characters are lifeless and the plot is jumbled and feels without direction. No character is developed enough to care about. King John, Edward III, and Prince Edward are there but not of particular interest. We see King Edward III courting a noblewoman who is not his wife for quite a chunk of the play, but nothing becomes of it. What is the point of anything in this drama? Edward III ruled for an extremely long time, even by today's standard and outlived his impressive son. There is room to make an interesting play about his life, but this is not it. When compared to Shakespeare's other histories, this pales in comparison, and is much inferior to Marlowe's Edward II as well.