to be by the same author and a major influence on its language, content and treatment. Performances The Hampshire Shakespeare Company, a non-professional theatre in Amherst, Massachusetts, staged the first known American production of Thomas of Woodstock in 1999. Local writer Frederick Carrigg supplied an ending to cover the missing manuscript page(s).Royal Blood: The Rise and Fall of Kings was a 10-play series of Shakespeare's history plays staged chronologically over four seasons by the Pacific Repertory Theatre from 2001 to 2004, which included the American professional premieres of both Edward III and Thomas of Woodstock. They proposed Shakespeare as the author of both plays in their first arc in 2001, consisting of Edward III, Thomas of Woodstock, and Richard II. The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., staged Richard II in 2010 with director Michael Kahn's incorporation of a significant part of Thomas of Woodstock at the start of the play. On 20 December 2013 the Royal Shakespeare Company gave a rehearsed reading of the play at London's Barbican Centre in the context of its ongoing performances of Richard II. The text was significantly cut by the director (for example the subplot involving Nimble and the blank charters was excised) to highlight the relationship between the two plays. In 2020 the Beyond Shakespeare Company released on line a play-reading and discussion of Thomas of Woodstock on YouTube. References There is a full chapter about this anonymous play in Kevin De Ornellas, The Horse in Early Modern English Culture'', Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013. . External links Full text of Richard II: Thomas of Woodstock at Internet archive www.american-shakespeare.com English Renaissance plays Shakespeare apocrypha Plays set in the 14th century Richard II of England Plays in manuscript Plays about English royalty 16th-century plays