SHAKESPEARE SOURCES

TAMING OF THE SHREW

Plautus, Captivi

Ariosto, I Suppositi (1509)

Gascoigne, Supposes (1566)

Shakespeare, Taming of THE Shrew (c. 1592 - 1594)

Anon., Taming of A Shrew (1594)

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Theseus & Hippolyta:

Plutarch -- Lives (trans. Thomas North 1579)

Chaucer -- Knight's Tale

Ovid -- Metamorphoses

Fairies:

Huon of Bordeaux (trans. 1540)

Spenser -- Fairie Queene (1590)

Mechanicals:

Ovid -- Metamorphoses

Apuleius -- Golden Ass (trans. Wm. Adlington 1566)

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

Creditor story:

Ser Giovanni -- "Il Pecorore" (1558)

Casket story:

Gesta Romanorum (trans 1577)

RICHARD II

Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars (1595)

Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles (1587)

Christopher Marlowe, Edward II (c. 1592)

Anon., Thomas of Woodstock (c. 1591)

RICHARD III

Edward Hall, Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke (1548)

Polydore Virgil, Anglica Historia (1534)

Thomas More, The History of Richard III (1557)

Holinshed, Chronicles (1587)

Titus Andronicus

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Seneca, Thyestes

Anon., The History of Titus Andronicus [lost chapbook]

Revenge Tragedy:

Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy (1587)

Shakespeare, Hamlet (1599)

Cyril Tourneur, The Revenger's Tragedy (1607)

Cyril Tourneur, The Atheist's Tragedy (1611)

AUTHORSHIP OF TA:

1. Shak EARLY, c. 1590

2. Shak in 1593-1594

3. Shak and George Peele, 1593-94

4. Peele early, rev. by Shak in 1593-94 or by Shak and Peele in 1593-94

Antony and Cleopatra

Plutarch, Lives

Cymbeline

Sir Clyamon and Clamydes (1599) = romance

The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune (1582) = romance

Arcadia, Sir Philip Sidney = prose narrative

Chronicles, Holinshed = prose history

Decameron, Boccaccio = story of wager on faithful wife

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