Cultural depictions of Edward IV of England

Edward IV of England has been depicted in popular culture a number of times.

Literature

Edward IV features as a character in:

• The plays Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 3, and Richard III, by William Shakespeare
• The plays King Edward IV, Part 1 and King Edward IV, Part 2, by Thomas Heywood, a contemporary of Shakespeare's.
• The Innocent, The Exiled and The Beloved (released as The Uncrowned Queen) by Australian novelist, Posie Graeme-Evans
• The Raven and the Rose by Virginia Henley (a fictional illegitimate child of Edward IV is the main character)
• The Sunne In Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman (a historical fiction novel about the life of Richard III)
• We Speak No Treason by Rosemary Hawley Jarman (a historical fiction novel about Richard III as Duke of Gloucester)

Film and television

Edward has been played on film and television by:

• Alfred Brydone in the silent short Richard III (1911), dramatising a part of Shakespeare's play
• Robert Gemp in the silent Shakespeare adaptation Richard III (1912)
• Roy Travers in the silent film Jane Shore (1915), an adaptation of the play The Tragedy of Jane Shore by Nicholas Rowe
• Ian Hunter in Tower of London (1939), a horror film loosely dramatising the rise to power of Richard III
• Cedric Hardwicke in Richard III, with Laurence Olivier
• Julian Glover in the BBC series An Age of Kings (1960), which contained all the history plays from Richard II to Richard III
• Justice Watson in the remake of Tower of London (1962)
• Benno Sterzenbach in the......
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