Much Ado About Nothing
November 19, 2021
Literary sources include Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) from his “Orlando Furioso” (1516) of which the English translation by John Harington published in 1591 would have been
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Literary sources include Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) from his “Orlando Furioso” (1516) of which the English translation by John Harington published in 1591 would have been
Literary sources for this history play include Raphael Holinshed (c. 1528-c. 1580) who wrote; “The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland” (2nd ed., 1587) as
In 1602 The Merry Wives of Windsor was published under the pseudonym of “William Shakespeare”, but was entered into the Stationer’s Office on the 18th
This is another tragedy, comedy or riddle play that is derived from Greek mythology or history namely The Illiad by Homer which relates the abduction
All’s Well that Ends Well is a First Folio play inspired from Giovanni Boccacio’s Decameron (1353) by way of either William Painter’s own expurgated version
The Tempest and its’ spurious link to “The Voyage of the Sea Venture” is the most quoted by academic Stratfordians to refute the Oxfordian assertions
The most likely source for Romeo & Juliet was Dante‘s “Purgatorio” and Arthur Brooke‘s English translation entitled “Tragicall Historye of Romeus & Juliet” (1562), first
The literary sources for Timon of Athens are largely derived from Plutarch‘s The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans translated by Sir Thomas North
The main sources for Richard II were of course Edward Hall, (1498-1547) from his “The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster
One of the plays that was not included in the 1623 Shakespeare Folio Pericles, Prince of Tyre was dubiously published under Shakespeare‘s name but later