If I argue Thomas North should get credit for Shakespeare’s source-plays, I damn sure better credit my sources as well! So my apologies to Professor Alan Hughes, but on page 117 of Michael Blanding’s “North by Shakespeare,” I am quoted off-the-cuff as saying the following about “The Longleat Manuscript” : “Why would someone take the topContinue reading “Credit Where Credit is Due: Prof. Alan Hughes!”
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Gosson’s 1579 Reference to the original “The Merchant of Venice”
The source play for The Merchant of Venice, which was originally titled, The Jew of Venice, is relatively easy to date: 1578. We know this because we can confine its date between a known source, Richard Robinson’s English translation of the Gesta Romanorum (1577), and a known allusion to the drama in Stephen Gosson’s SchoolContinue reading “Gosson’s 1579 Reference to the original “The Merchant of Venice””