Editing Edward III (play) (section)

=== Attributions ===
* William Shakespeare – [[Edward Capell]] (1760)
* [[George Peele]] – [[Tucker Brooke]] (1908)
* [[Christopher Marlowe]], with [[Robert Greene (16th century)|Robert Greene]], George Peele, and [[Thomas Kyd]] – [[J. M. Robertson]] (1924)
* [[Michael Drayton]] – [[E. A. Gerard]] (1928)
* [[Robert Wilson (dramatist)|Robert Wilson]] – [[S. R. Golding]] (1929)
* William Shakespeare – [[A. S. Cairncross]] (1935)
* Michael Drayton – [[H. W. Crundell]] (1939)
* Thomas Kyd – William Wells (1940)
* Thomas Kyd – [[Guy Lambrechts]] (1963)
* Robert Greene – [[R. G. Howarth]] (1964)
* [[Thomas Heywood]] – [[Moelwyn Merchant]] (1967){{NoteTag|Merchant's introduction to the New Mermaids edition of Marlowe's ''[[Edward II (play)|Edward the Second]]'' ([[Hill and Wang]], 1967) twice mentions Heywood as the author of ''Edward III'' (xvii, xxiv).}}
* William Shakespeare – [[Eliot Slater]] (1988)
* William Shakespeare and one other – [[Jonathan Hope (scholar)|Jonathan Hope]] (1994)
* William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe – [[Robert A. J. Matthews]] and [[Thomas V. N. Merriam]] (1994)
* William Shakespeare – [[Eric Sams]] (1996)
* William Shakespeare and others (not Marlowe) – [[Giorgio Melchiori]] (1998)<ref>Melchiori, p.&nbsp;15.</ref>{{NoteTag|Melchiori (p.&nbsp;35) dismisses the Marlovian character of the play as having been written under the influence of Marlowe's ''[[Tamburlaine (play)|Tamburlaine, Part II]]'', which was recent and popular enough to be fresh in the memory of theatre-goers during the period in which ''Edward III'' was written. Melchiori does not believe that the play is entirely Shakespeare's, but he does not attempt to determine whose the other hands in the play are. He also voices his dislike of the publication of the "hand D" segments of ''[[Sir Thomas More (play)|Sir Thomas More]]'' out of context in many complete Shakespeare editions (ix).}}
* Christopher Marlowe (Acts I, III, and V) and William Shakespeare (Acts II and IV) – [[Thomas Merriam]] (2000)<ref>Thomas Merriam. "''Edward III''", ''[[Literary and Linguistic Computing]]'' 15 (2000), 157–80, cited in William Shakespeare. ''King Edward III''. [[Arden Shakespeare]] Third Series. Ed. Richard Proudfoot and Nicola Bennett. London, Bloosbury, 2017, 82.</ref>
* Thomas Kyd (60%) and William Shakespeare (40%) – [[Brian Vickers (academic)|Brian Vickers]] (2009)<ref name="vickers" />
* George Peele – [[Lois Potter]] (2012)<ref>''The Life of William Shakespeare'', 170, cited in Proudfoot and Bennett, 85.</ref>
* William Shakespeare (Scenes 2, 3, and 12) and others (principal consideration is given to Marlowe, Kyd, Peele and [[Thomas Nashe]], but qualified as "purely speculative" and insisting that even Shakespeare's involvement is conjectural) – Richard Proudfoot and Nicola Bennett (2017)
* Thomas Kyd and William Shakespeare – Darren Freebury-Jones (2022)<ref name="Freebury-Jones, Darren"/>