Sir John Oldcastle of Martyrs". Oldcastle was also a minor character in the early Elizabethan history play the "Famous Victories of Henry V" (c. 1586?), which is generally thought to have been one of Shakespeare's sources for his plays on Henry IV and Henry V. The genesis of "Sir John Oldcastle" is crucially linked to the fact that when Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays premiered on stage in 1597–98, the character Sir John Falstaff was called Sir John Oldcastle. This is indicated by abundant external and internal evidence. The change of names, from "Oldcastle" to "Falstaff," is mentioned in seventeenth-century works by Richard James
The Oxford Shakespeare of Athens" as either collaborations with or revisions by Thomas Middleton; "Pericles" as a collaboration with George Wilkins; "Henry VI Part One" as a collaboration with several unknown other dramatists; and "Henry VIII" and "The Two Noble Kinsmen" as collaborations with John Fletcher. It also broke with tradition in presenting Shakespeare's works in chronological order, rather than dividing them by genre. In 2005, a second edition of the "Complete Works" was produced. It adds a full text of "Sir Thomas More" (edited by John Jowett), which may contain passages by Shakespeare, and "Edward III" (edited by William Montgomery), another play