Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, 1603 - 'Of Cannibals' p.100.
A source for Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Florio’s translation of Montaigne was registered in 1600, and it is possible that Shakespeare saw a manuscript before the Essays were printed ...
Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, 1603 - p. A2r.
An translator's dedication in a Shakespeare sourcebook.
In addition to the simpler statement of dedication John Florio wrote a fulsome dedicatory letter to the Countess of Bedford and her mother, Lady ...
Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, 1603 - Sonnet to the Countess of Bedford,p. A4r.
Dedicatory verses to a noble patron of Shakespeare's contemporary.
As well as a dedicatory letter, John Florio’s translation of Montaigne's Essays also included dedicatory verses to his patron ...
Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, 1603 - title page
A French text translated by an associate of Shakespeare.
English born, John Florio, son of a protestant Italian refugee, was tutor to Lady Jane Grey, and later to Shakespeare’s patron Henry Wriothesley, ...
Mosaic of Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon
This design was produced for the building designed by Harris, Martin and Harris of Birmingham and opened in 1883 to house a branch of the Birmingham Banking Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. The panels ...
'Mr Shaxsper' sells stone to the Stratford Corporation, 1597/8 - detail
Entry in the chamberlains' accounts submitted to the Stratford Corporation for the year 1597/8 recording the purchase of a load of stone for 10 pence from 'Mr Shaxsper'.
As William Shakespeare's father, ...
Names of the jurors summoned in the case, Shakespeare v Addenbrooke, c. January 1609
List of twenty-four men summoned by order of 21 December 1608 to form a jury to hear the case, Shakespeare v Addenbrooke.
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust reference: BRU 15/5/127b
Nineteenth-century endorsement of the conveyance in which William Shakespeare buys land in Stratford, 1 May 1602.
William Shakespeare bought 107 acres of land in Stratford, 1 May 1602.
This document was once part of the collections of R.B. Wheler. After his death, these had been given by his sister to the Trustees ...
Note of Shakespeare's ownership of New Place and its garden, c. 1605-10
On the back of a 1572 lease of a barn and garden in Chapel Lane, a clerk later scribbled down an undated note about the owners of adjoining land. Shakespeare had purchased New Place in 1597 and he is ...
Order to summon jurors in the case, Shakespeare v Addenbrooke, 21 December 1608
In August 1608, William Shakespeare had alleged in the local Court of Record that John Addenbrooke owed him £6. In this document, the court orders that a twenty-four men be summoned to form a jury to ...
Original letter from Abraham Sturley to Richard Quiney with mention of William Shakespeare, 4 November 1598. Page 1
Letter from Abraham Sturley to Richard Quiney making mention of William Shakespeare's assistance with a loan. It was badly water-damaged during World War II, but luckily Captain James Saunders, a local ...
Ovid, Metamorphosis, 1603 - Book III, p. 32v. 'Phoebe'.
Stories for references in Shakespeare.
Shakespeare's reading, and school memories of Ovid gave him not only references for stories that he could use, but names such as Phoebe, which occurs in the story ...
Ovid, Metamorphosis, 1603 - Book III, p. 33r, Hunting dogs'.
Shakespeare's source for Theseus praising his hounds in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Shakespeare drew on his memories of Ovid's story of Diana and Actaeon when Duke Theseus praises the barking ...
Ovid, Metamorphosis, 1603 - Book IV, p. 43v, 'Pyramus & Thisbe'..
Shakespeare’s source for the play of 'Pyramus and Thisbe'.
Nick Bottom, the weaver and leading actor amongst the Athenian craftsmen in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, knows little about ...
Ovid, Metamorphosis, 1603 - Book IV, p. 44r,'Thisbe flees the lioness'..
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 ...
Ovid, Metamorphosis, 1603 - Book X, p. 119v, 'Orpheus' story'..
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 ...
Ovid, Metamorphosis, 1603 - Book X, p. 120r, 'Orpheus and Euridice'..
Stories for sources in Shakespeare.
The story of Orpheus, the poet and singer who tried to save his wife, the nymph Euridice, from death by charming the king of the underworld with his music, was in ...
Ovid, Metamorphosis, 1603 - Book XII, p. 144v, 'Achilles'.
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 ...