Shakespeare's library : a collection of the romances, novels, poems, and histories, used by Shakespeare as the foundation of his dramas ; now first collected, and accurately reprinted from the original editions ; with introductory notices /

Preface signed 1843.With reproductions of original title-pages.v. 1. Greene's Pandosto, the story on which is founded The winter's tale. -- Lodge's Rosalynd, the novel on which is founded As you like it. -- The historie of Hamblet, the history on which the tragedy of Hamlet is constructed. -- Apollonius, prince of Tyre, from which the incidents of the play of the play of Pericles are derived. -- v. 2. Romeus and Juliet, a poem, by Arthur Brooke. -- Rhomeo and Julietta; from Paynter's Palace of pleasure. -- Giletta of Narbona, on which is founded All's well that ends well; from Paynter's Palace of pleasure. -- The story of the two lovers of Pisa, which Shakespeare employed in his Merry wives of Windsor. -- The historie of Apollonius and Silla, containing part of the plot of Twelfth night; reprinted from Rich's Farewell to military profession, 1606. -- The historie of Promos and Cassandra, closely resembling the plot of Measure for measure; from Whetstone's Heptameron of civil discourses, 1582. -- Novels more or less resembling the Merchant of Venice. -- The story of a Moorish captain, on which is founded the tragedy of Othello; form the Heccatomithi of Cinithio. -- Queen Cordila, a poem, by John Higgins; from the Mirror for magistrates, 1587. -- The story of the Paphlagonian unkind king, on which is founded the epistode of Gloster and his sons, in King Lear; from Holinshed's Chronicle. -- The story of the shepherdess Felismena, from which Shakespeare is said to have taken the plot of The two gentlemen of Verona; from the Diana of Montemayor, tr. by B. Young, 1598. -- The story told by the fishwife of Stand on the Green, the incidents of which are similar to some of those in Cymbeline; from Westwardfor Smelts, 1620.Mode of access: Internet