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• "Otello" The Story That Started It All

  http://www.classical.net:80/music/comp.lst/works/verdi/otello/otstory.html

  A modern translation of Cinthio's Moor of Venice, Shakespeare's source for Othello:

  keywords: history, oth, othello, source, moor

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Othello

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Another Island, Another Story: A source for Shakespeare's The Tempest

  http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v5no1/bilton.htm

  Bilton, Peter. "Another island, Another Story: A source for Shakespeare's The Tempest." Renaissance Forum 5.1 (2000). Bilton suggests that The Enamoured Diana by Gil Polo was Shakespeare's inspiration for The Tempest:

  keywords: diana, polo, inspiration, source, Tmp, tempest

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Tempest

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Dating The Tempest

  http://shakespeareauthorship.com/tempest.html

  Kathman, David. "Dating The Tempest." The Shakespeare Authorship Page. Eds. David Kathman and Terry Ross. Kathman uses The Tempest, dated after the death of the Earl of Oxford, to challenge the claim that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare's plays:

  keywords: date, authorship, earl, oxford, source, Tmp, tempest

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Tempest

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Granville's Jew of Venice (1701): A Close Reading of Shakespeare's Merchant

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/GRANVILL%20JEW_OF_V.txt

  Schneider, Ben Ross. "Granville's Jew of Venice (1701): A Close Reading of Shakespeare's Merchant." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies, 1992. Schneider examines the differences between Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Granville's early 18th-century adaptation of it, The Jew of Venice, and disputes the argument that Granville's text is Shakespeare's minus the capitalism:

  keywords: adaptation, capitalism, granville, jew, MV, merchant, source

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More)

  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Ov.+Met.+1.1

  Metamorphoses is available in Shakespeare's preferred translation, by Arthur Golding, at Perseus Project:

  keywords: metamorphoses, source, ovid, perseus, golding

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Ovid

  valid as of 2005-09-15

• Romeus and Juliet

  http://www.clicknotes.com/romeo/brooke/welcome.html

  Arthur Brooke's long poem, Romeus and Juliet is posted at this site. Romeus and Juliet is the principal source for Shakespeare's play (not "Ethel the pirate's daughter" as Tom Stoppard wittily suggests in the film Shakespeare in Love):

  keywords: arthur brooke, daughter, romeus and juliet, romeo and juliet, rom, romeo, juliet, source

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Romeo and Juliet

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Romeus and Juliet

  http://www.clicknotes.com/romeo/brooke/welcome.html

  The poem by Arthur Brooke, Romeus and Juliet, was used by Shakespeare as the source for his play Romeo and Juliet. A step-by-step summary of Brooke's poem is provided at Shakespeare Navigators:

  keywords: brooke, romeo, juliet, source, Rom

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > Romeo and Juliet

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Shakespeare's Italian Dream: Cinquecento sources for A Midsummer Night's Dream

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/ITALIAN%20DREAM.txt

  Leslie, Robert W. "Shakespeare's Italian Dream: Cinquecento Sources for A Midsummer Night's Dream." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies. Leslie argues that not only is the setting of A Midsummer Night's Dream largely Italian, but the plot is also influenced by Italian sources:

  keywords: italian, italy, MND, midsummer night's dream, source

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > A Midsummer Night's Dream

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• The Renaissance: Authors and texts -- Shakespeare's sources

  http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/links/Renaissance_Sites/Authors_and_texts.html

  See Shakespeare's sosurces for the history plays at the Internet Shakespeare Editions:

  keywords: history, source

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > English > Holinshed, Raphael

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Troilus and Criseyde

  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-old?id=ChaTroi&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/mideng-parsed&part=0

  Troilus and Criseyde is available at the University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center:

  keywords: tro, chaucer, troilus, criseyde, source

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Medieval > Chaucer

  valid as of 2005-09-15

• Hall's Chronicle

  http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?textID=halle&PagePosition=1

  Hall, Edward, d. 1547. The vnion of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, beyng long in continuall discension for the croune of this noble realme : with al the actes done in both the tymes of the princes, both of the one linage & of the other.... (Hall's Chronicle). London : Rychard Grafton, Prynter to the Kynges Maiestye, 1550. This text is available through the Furness Collection:

  keywords: hall, chronicle, edward, source, 1H6, 2H6

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > Henry VI Parts 1-2

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• More's Life of Richard III

  http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=more_richIII&PagePosition=1

  More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535. The tragicall historie of the life and reigne of Richard the third. Written by the right honorable Sir Thomas Moore, Lord Chancellor of England. In The historie of the pittiful life and unfortunate death of Edward the fifth and the then Duke of Yorke, his brother ; with, The troublesome and tyrranical government of usurping Richard the third, and his miserable end. London: T. Payne and sold by M. Young, 1641. This text is available throug the Furness Collection at:

  keywords: R3, king, edward, richard, yorke, source, moore

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > Richard III

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Orator

  http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=orator_selections&PagePosition=1

  Le Sylvain, ca. 1535-ca. 1585. "Of a Jew, who would for his debt haue a pound of the flesh of a Christian" From In The orator : handling a hundred seuerall discourses, in forme of eclamations : some of the arguments being drawne from Titus Liuius and other ancient writers, the rest of the authors owne inuention : part of which are of matters happened in our age . London : Printed by Adam Islip, 1596. View images of this original text at the Furness Collection:

  keywords: london, merchant, mv, venice, source

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice

  valid as of 2005-09-12