Thomas of Woodstock (play) 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 Pacific Repertory Theatre from 2001–04, 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
Edward the Black Prince possible that this is where the title had its origins. The French soldier Philippe de Mézières refers to Edward as the greatest of the "black boars" – those aggressors who had done so much to disrupt relations within Christendom. Other French writers made similar associations, and Peter Hoskins reports that an oral tradition of "L'Homme Noir", who had passed by with an army, survived in southern France until recent years. In Shakespeare's "Henry V", the King of France alludes to "that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales". John Speed reported in 1611 that the Black Prince was so named