High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas of Woodstock and Richard the Second Part One are two common names for an untitled, anonymous and apparently incomplete manuscript of an Elizabethan play depicting events in the reign of King Richard II. Some scholars have attributed it to William Shakespeare, although it does not appear in at least two of the major editions of the Shakespeare Apocrypha. The play often is cited as being a probable influence upon Shakespeare`s Richard II, as well as possibly Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2.