Links Database:
Keyword source
- "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
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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