Date:1603
Description:A story source for Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. The fame of the Greek warrior, Achilles, and his companions was well-known in literature, but Shakespeare may first have discovered the story when at school. Golding’s translation of Ovid's stories was published in 1603, the same year that Troilus and Cressida was first registered with the Stationers’ Company, prior to it’s being printed in 1609. See: Troilus and Cressida, Achilles, 2,1, lines 122-130. 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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Source: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - Library
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