Date:1603
Description:Stories for sources in Shakespeare. The tale of the doomed lovers Pyramus and Thisbe was among those that Shakespeare remembered from Ovid, and used for A Midsummer Night’s Dream>, 1,2, lines 1-103, and 5, 1, lines108-355. Full title: Publius Ovidius Naso, The XV [15] bookes of P. Ovidius Naso, entituled Metamorphosis. Translated out of Latine into English meeter, by Arthur Golding, Imprinted at London by W. W[hite], 1603.
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A much-used book, possibly owned by Shakespeare. This prayer book, whose dimensions ...
Duke Theseus’ hounds in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Theseus’s ...
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Donor ref:SR 99.4 [25] (32/10633)
Source: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - Library
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