Editions anglaises

- King Richard III, ed. James R. Siemon, Arden Third Series, 2009.
- The Tragedy of King Richard III, ed. John Jowett, Oxford University Press, 2008.
- King Richard III, ed. Janis Lull, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- King Richard III, ed. Antony Hammond, Arden Second Series, 1981.
- William Shakespeare. A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells & Gary Taylor, Oxford University Press, 1987.

Traductions

- Deprats, Jean-Michel, Gallimard/NRF Le Manteau d'Arlequin, 1995 (1984), et en édition bilingue Pléiade, Histoires tome I, in Œuvres complètes de Shakespeare, Gallimard, 2008.
- Hugo, François-Victor, Richard III, in Les Tyrans, vol. II, repr. en facsimile de l'édition Pagnerre par Le Monde / RBA, 2015.
- Malaplate, Jean, édition bilingue, Oxford / Bouquins Laffont, 1997.
- Markowicz, André, Les Solitaires intempestifs, 2010

Biographies

- Edmonson, Paul, et Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Beyond Doubt : Evidence, Argument, Controversy, Cambridge UP, 2013.
- Goy-Blanquet, Dominique et François Laroque eds., Shakespeare, combien de prétendants ? Editions Thierry Marchaisse, Coll. Octets, Paris, 2016.
- Honigmann, Ernst A. J., Shakespeare : The Lost Years, Manchester UP, 1985.
- Potter, Lois, The Life of William Shakespeare : A Critical Biography, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
- Schoenbaum, Samuel, William Shakespeare (1987), trad. Anne-Dominique Balmès, Flammarion, Paris, 1996.
- Schwyzer, Philip, Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III, Oxford UP, 2013.

Sources historiques et idéologiques

Bodin, Jean, La Méthode de l'histoire [1566], trad. Pierre Mesnard, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1941.
Bullough, Geoffrey, Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, Londres, Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1977, vol. 3
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Sources littéraires, dramatiques et folkloriques

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Histoire médiévale

Chrimes, S.B., C.D. Ross, and R.A. Griffiths, Fifteenth-century England 1399-1509 : Studies in politics and society, Manchester UP, 1972.
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Histoire des idées, historiographie

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— Tudor History and the Historians, New York, Basic Books, 1970.
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Goy-Blanquet, Dominique, Shakespeare et l’invention de l’histoire (3e éd. augmentée), Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2014.
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Etudes critiques sur la Henriade

Berry, Edward I., Patterns of Decay : Shakespeare's Early Histories, UP of Virginia, 1975.
Baldo, Jonathan, Memory in Shakespeare’s Histories : Stages of Forgetting in Early Modern England, Routledge, 2012.
Bolton, Whitney F., Shakespeare's English : Language in the History Plays, Basil Blackwell, Cambridge, Mass., 1992.
Brooke, Nicholas, Shakespeare's Early Tragedies, Methuen, Londres, 1968.
— « Reflecting Gems and Dead Bones : Tragedy versus History in Richard III », in Shakespeare's Wide and Universal Stage, ed. C.B. Cox and D.J. Palmer, Manchester UP, 1984.
Chardin, Jean-Jacques, Richard III : Dramaturgie des ambiguïtés, Paris, Messene, 1999.
Connolly, Annaliese (ed.), Richard III : A Critical Reader, Londres, Bloomsbury, 2013.
Dillon, Janette, Shakespeare and the Staging of English History, Oxford UP, 2012.
Fretz, Claude, « 'Full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams': Dreams and Tragedy in Shakespeare’s Richard III », Cahiers élisabéthains, déc. 2016.
Garber, Marjorie, « Descanting on Deformity : Richard III and the Shape of History », in Shakespeare's Ghost Writers : Literature as Uncanny Causality, Methuen, New York, 1987.
Goy-Blanquet, Dominique, Shakespeare : Richard III, Didier Erudition, 1999.
Grene, Nicholas, Shakespeare’s Serial History Plays, Cambridge UP, 2002.
Holland, Peter (ed.), Shakespeare’s English Histories and their Afterlives, Shakespeare Survey, n° 63, Cambridge UP, 2010.
Howard, Jean E., and Phyllis Rackin, Engendering a Nation : A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories, Routledge, Londres, 1997.
Iser, Wolfgang, Staging Politics : The Lasting Impact of Shakespeare’s Histories, Columbia UP, 1993.
Jones, Emrys, « A Time of Crisis : The Early Histories », The Origins of Shakespeare, Oxford UP, 1977.
Karreman, Isabel, The Drama of Memory in Shakespeare's History Plays, Cambridge UP, 2015.
Keenan, Siobhan, « Re-reading Shakespeare’s Richard III : Tragic Hero and Villain? », Academic Journal, Linguaculture, 15 juin 2017, vol n° 1, p. 23-34
Marienstras, Richard, et Dominique Goy-Blanquet (eds.), Le Tyran : Shakespeare contre Richard III, Sterne, Université de Picardie, Amiens, 1990.
Parvini, Neema, Shakespeare’s History Plays : Rethinking Historicism, Edinburgh UP, 2012.
Pugliatti, Paola, Shakespeare the Historian, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1996.
Prior, Moody E., The Drama of Power : Studies in Shakespeare's History Plays, Northwestern U.P., Evanston, Illinois, 1973.
Rackin, Phyllis, Stages of History : Shakespeare's English Chronicles, Cornell UP, Ithaca, 1990.
— « Engendering the Tragic Audience : The case of Richard III », in Studies in the Literary Imagination, XXVI, 1993, pp. 47-65.
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Siegel, Paul L., Shakespeare's English and Roman History Plays : A Marxist Analysis, Iowa State UP, 1992.
Tillyard, E. M. W., The Elizabethan World Picture, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1966 (1943)
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Wells, Robin H., « The Fortunes of Tillyard : Twentieth-Century Debate on Shakespeare's History Plays », English Studies, 66, 1985, pp. 391-403.
Watson, Donald G., Shakespeare's Early History Plays : Politics at Play on the Elizabethan Stage, Macmillan, Basingstoke et Londres, 1990.

Ouvrages généraux

Arnold, Oliver, The Third Citizen. Shakespeare’s Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Bate, Jonathan, The Genius of Shakespeare, Oxford UP, 1998.
Bevington, David M., Tudor Drama and Politics : A Critical Approach to Topical Meanings, Harvard UP, Cambridge, Mass., 1968.
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Buda, Paul, A Mirror for Magistrates and the De Casibus Tradition, UP of Toronto, 2000.
Déprats, Jean-Michel, Shakespeare, Que sais-je ?, PUF, 2016.
Eliot, T. S., « Seneca in Elizabethan Translation » et « Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca » (1932), in Selected Essays 1917-1934, Harcourt, New York, 2014.
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Kapitaniak, Pierre, Spectres, ombres et fantômes : Discours et représentations dramatiques en Angleterre, 1576-1642, Honoré Champion, Paris, 2008.
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Marienstras, Richard, Le Proche et le Lointain : sur Shakespeare, le drame élisabéthain et l'idéologie anglaise aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Éditions de Minuit, Paris, 1981.
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Suhamy, Henri, Le Vers de Shakespeare, Didier Erudition, Paris, 1984.

Histoire scénique et filmique

Barton, John and Peter Hall, The Wars of the Roses, adapted from 'Henry VI' and 'Richard III', BBC, Londres, 1970.
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Cox, Brian, The Lear Diaries : the story of the Royal National Theatre's productions of Shakespeare's 'Richard III' and 'King Lear', Londres, Methuen, 1992.
Déprats, Jean-Michel, « Cacodémon cinéaste », Shakespeare et le cinéma, ed. P. Dorval, Société Française Shakespeare, 1998.
Gurr, Andrew, The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642, 3ème ed., Cambridge UP, 1992.
— The Shakespearean Playing Companies, Clarendon, Oxford, 1996.
Hankey, Julie (ed.), Plays in Performance : Richard III, 2nd ed., Bristol Classical Books, 1988.
— Interpréter Richard III, Cahiers Renaud Barrault, 114, Gallimard, Paris, 1987
Hatchuel, Sarah et Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (eds.), Shakespeare on Screen : Richard III, Publications de l'Université de Rouen, 2005.
– Shakespeare on Screen : The Henriad, PU de Rouen et du Havre, 2008.
Hortmann, Wilhelm, Shakespeare on the German Stage. The Twentieth Century, Cambridge UP, 1998.
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McKellen, Ian, with Richard Loncrane, William Shakespeare's 'Richard III', A Screenplay, Doubleday, Londres, 1996.
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Willems, Michèle (ed.), Shakespeare à la télévision, Publ. de l'Université de Rouen, 1987.