Footnotes

1. Pericles, Prince of Tyre

   Sources:

   • Confessio Amantis, John Gower (1554) - Book VIII
   • The Patterne of Painefull Adventures, Laurence Twine (1594?)

   Analogues:

   • The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia, Sir Philip Sidney (1590)
   • The Painfull Adventures of Pericles Prince of Tyre, George Wilkins (1608)

   • The Orator, Alexander Silvayn; translated by Lazarus Piot (1596)

2. Cymbeline

   Sources:

   • The First Volume of Chronicles, Raphael Holinshed (1587) - "The Second Booke of the Historie of England," "Mulmutius Dunwallow," "Julius Caesar in Difficulties," and "Cymbeline and Guiderius"
   • The Description and Historie of Scotland, Raphael Holinshed (Chronicles, 1587 edn.)
   • Frederyke of Jenne, Anon. (1560)
   • The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio - Day II, Nov. 9

   Probable source:

   • The Rare Triumphes of Love and Fortune, Anon. (1589)

   Analogues:

   • Eufemia: A Comedy, Lope de Rueda (1567)
   • Certains Tragicall Discources of Bandello; translated by Geoffrey Fenton (1567)
   • Jerusalem Delivered, Torquato Tasso; translated by Edward Fairfax (1600) - Book VII, Book VIII, Book XIX

3. The Winter's Tale

   Sources:

   • Pandosto. The Triumphe of Time, Robert Greene (1588)
   • The Second Part of Conny-catching, and The Third Part of Conny-catching, R[obert] G[reene] (1592)
   • Metamorphoses, Ovid; translated by Arthur Golding (1567) - Book X

   Probable source:

   • The Fisherman's Tale and Flora's Fortune, Francis Sabie (1595)

   Possible sources:

   • Mucedorus, Anon. (1610 edn)
   • Humour Out of Breath, John Day (1608)
   • The Ninth Book of Amadis de Gaule, F. de Silva; translated by C. Colet (1577)

   Analogues:

   • The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, Sir Philip Sidney (1590)
   • Parismenos, Emmanuel Forde, (1609 edn.)
   • The History of the Tryall of Chevalry, Anon. (1605)

4. The Tempest

   Probable source:s

   • A true Declaration of the estate of the Colonie in Virginia,...(1610)
   • A True and sincere declaration of the purpose and ends of the Plantation begun in Virginia (1610)

   Possible sources:

   • Hymenaei, A Masque, Ben Jonson (1606)
   • Colloquia: The Shipwreck, a Dialogue, Desiderius Erasmus; translated by W. B[urton] (1606)

   Analogues:

   • The first part of the Mirrour of Knighthood; translated by M. T[yler] (1578)
   • The third part of the First Book of the Mirrour of Knighthood; translated by R. Parry (1586?)
   • The Fair Sidea, Jacob Ayrer (1618)
   • A Most Pleasant Comedie of Mucedorus, Anon. (1598)
   • John a Kent and John a Cumber, Anthony Munday (1594)
   • The Three Satyrs, A Pastoral Tale, Anon. (early seventeenth century)

5. The Two Noble Kinsmen

6. Venus and Adonis

   Source:

   • Metamorphoses, Ovid, translated by Arthur Golding (1575). Lines 585-651; 826-863 - Lib X (Venus and Adonis), Lib. IV (Salmacis and Hermaphroditus) and Lib. III (Narcissus)

7. The Rape of Lucrece

   Sources:

   • Fasti II, Ovid
   • The Pallace of Pleasure, William Painter (1566) - The Second Novell

   Probable source:

   • The Legende of Good Women, Geoffrey Chaucer

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