Date:1603
Description:Stories for sources in Shakespeare. When Shakespeare came to London he had great opportunity for contact with books, whether in the city, on the bookstalls around St. Paul's Churchyard, or from the library shelves of his patron the Earl of Southampton, or from Southampton's tutor-librarian John Florio. Shakespeare had known the work of Ovid and the Roman poets from his schooldays, and now he could read and study other translations, and books on every subject. In Book X he had read of Orpheus, Ganymede, Venus and Adonis and Atalanta, all of whom are referred to in Shakespeare's plays. 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.
The timeline shows resources around this location over a number of years.
Shakespeare may have owned this book. Shakespeare purchased New Place, the largest ...
Shakespeare’s first published works. The long poem, Venus and Adonis, was ...
Shakespeare followed this description of Cleopatra. Shakespeare became very ...
A play for the Blackfriars Theatre: Shakespeare's Love’s Labour’s Lost. The ...
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Source: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - Library
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