Ralph Shaa

{{Short description|English theologian (d. 1484)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

Ralph Shaa (sometimes erroneously[https://books.google.com/books?id=K_8hd8MEthIC&dq=%22ralph+shaa%22+shaw+shakespeare&pg=PA220 Shakespeare's Early History Plays: From Chronicle to Stage], by Dominique Goy-Blanquet, published 2003 by Oxford University Press called John Shaa;[https://books.google.com/books?id=7AlqW5mSEkgC&dq=%22ralph+shaa%22+augustinian&pg=PA59 The History of King Richard III and Selections from the English and Latin Poems], by Thomas More; 1976 edition by Yale University Press; edited by Richard S. Sylvester; note footnote 3: "John Shaa, brother to the mayor", "i.e., Ralph Shaa" (italics in original) died 1484) was a 15th-century English theologian, the half-brother of the Lord Mayor of London,[https://books.google.com/books?id=ygKxt1dP71AC&dq=%22ralph+shaa%22&pg=PA174 Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama], p. 174, by Peter Saccio, published 2000 by Oxford University Press Edmund Shaa. Shaa (pronounced and sometimes spelled "Shaw") played a minor but pivotal role in the Wars of the Roses by preaching a sermon on 22 June 1483[https://books.google.com/books?id=ubXnWRMt6uoC&dq=shaw+%22richard+iii%22&pg=PA249 "Shaw's Sermon"], in Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses, by John A. Wagner; published 2001 by ABC-CLIO which claimed that Edward IV (as whose chaplain he had served)[https://books.google.com/books?id=xSoTDQAAQBAJ&dq=%22ralph+shaa%22&pg=PT11 Infamous Cheshire], by Bob Burrows, published 2006 by History Press had already been betrothed to Eleanor Butler at the time of his marriage to Elizabeth Woodville, and that Edward V was therefore illegitimate and had no claim to the throne.[http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/content/BPL_Images/Journal_Samples/HISR0950-3471~73~182/111.PDF Richard, Son of Richard: Richard III and Political Prophecy], by Lesley Coote and Tim Thornton; in Historical Research Volume 73, Issue 182, Pages 321-330 (October 2000)

Shaa is mentioned as "Doctor Shaw" in Shakespeare's play Richard III.[https://books.google.com/books?id=FZbZBvt2ytQC&dq=%22richard+iii%22+%22doctor+shaw%22+shakespeare&pg=PA28 CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Richard III], by James K. Lowers, published 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt