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Sources for Indiv. Plays | British Sources | European Sources | Classical Sources
- “Go to” Websites for Info. on Sources of Individual Plays
- RSC: Royal Shakespeare Company (see “Shakespeare’s Plays”)
- Internet Shakespeare Editions (see Texts)
- Shakespeare Online (A. Mabillard) (see Sources)
- Shakespeare’s Library, 1875, Vol. 1 (MDZ) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
SHAKESPEARE’S BRITISH SOURCES & INFLUENCES
- Dramatic Sources & Influences
- Queen’s Men Plays Shakespeare Used as Sources (U. Vic.)
- History of the Masque Genre (U-Maryland)
- Mystery and Morality Plays (British Lit. Wiki)
- Shepherds’ Plays (U of Rochester)
- York Corpus Christi Plays (U of Rochester)
- Everyman and Its Dutch Original (U of Rochester)
- Complete Works of John Lyly, Vol. 1 (HathiTrust)
- Non-Dramatic Sources & Influences
- Brooke, Arthur, Romeus and Juliet (HathiTrust)
- Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Landsdowne Ms. (U-Mich)
- Geoffrey Chaucer Website (Harvard U)
- Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (Sheffield HRI)
- Gower’s Confessio Amantis, Vol. 1 (MDZ) | 2 | 3 | or, UMich
- Gower’s Confessio Amantis, Vol. 1 (MDZ) | 2 | 3 | or, UMich
- Hall’s Union of the two noble … families … 1548 (EEBO/U-Mich) | (Colenda)
- Shakespeare’s Holinshed: Chronicle and … Plays Compared (HathiTrust)
- Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland…. (Holinshed Project)
- Holinshed’s Chronicles … Vol. 1 of 3 (EEBO/U-Mich) | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3
- Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur (UMich)
- Mirror for Magistrates, Vol. 1 (HathiTrust) | Vol. 2
- Painter’s Palace of Pleasure, 1575 Vol. 1 (Gutenberg) | 2 | 3
- John Stow’s Annals of England to 1603 (HathiTrust)
- John Stow’s The Chronicles of England … 1580 (HathiTrust)
- John Stow’s A Survey of London 1603 (British History Online)
- Tottel’s Miscellany, 1557. Wyatt et al. (HathiTrust)
- Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Collected Poetry (U of Virginia Library)
SHAKESPEARE’S EUROPEAN SOURCES & INFLUENCES
- Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, Harington’s 1607 trans. (U-Mich)
- Bandello’s Novelle, tr. J. Payne, 1890 (HathiTrust) 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
- Bandello’s Romeo e Julietta; Da Porto’s edition, too (MDZ)
- Bandello, trans. G. Fenton, Certain tragical discourses … (EEBO/U-Mich)
- Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (Gutenberg)
- Cinthio’s De Gli Hecatommithi, Pt. 1, 1566 (MDZ, Italian) | Pt. 2
- Commedia dell’Arte (alleytheatre.org) | (metmuseum.org) | (Britannica)
- Lazzi for Commedia dell’Arte Plays (dramateacher.com)
- Lazzi Playbook (Google sites)
- Gesta Romanorum, trans. Robinson, 1595 (EEBO/U-Mich)
- Machiavelli’s Il Principe, Ital. (MDZ) | Latin | French | English
- Montaigne’s Essays, 1603 Florio trans. (Renascence Editions)
SHAKESPEARE’S CLASSICAL SOURCES & INFLUENCES
- Theoi—Greek Mythology (Theoi.com)
- Cicero’s De Amicitia (Gutenberg)
- Homer’s Iliad 1611 trans. George Chapman (Gutenberg)
- Livy’s History of Rome, Books 1-8 (Gutenberg)
- Ovid’s Metamorphoses, 1567 Arthur Golding trans. (Perseus)
- Plautus’s Comedies: Amphitryo, Asinaria, etc. (Gutenberg)
- Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, trans. Thomas North (HathiTrust)
- Seneca’s Letters (Wikisource.org)
- Seneca’s Tragedies (Gutenberg, Mod. Eng.)
- Terence’s Comedies (Gutenberg)
- Terence’s Comedies, (HathiTrust)
- Virgil’s Aeneid, trans. Twyne & Phaer 1573 (EEBO) | Dryden | A. S. Kline
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