Shakespeare Sources

Question 1

Holinshed’s Chronicles

Answer 1

Macbeth, King Lear, Cymbeline

Question 2

Plutarch’s Lives

Answer 2

Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens

Question 3

King Lear

Answer 3

Philip Sidney’s Arcadia (Edmund and Edgar)

Question 4

Edward Hall’s The Union of Two noble families of Lancasters and Yorks (War of the Roses) (1455-85)

Answer 4

Sources of historical plays

Question 5

Ovid’s Metamorphosis

Answer 5

Tempest, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titus Andronicus

Question 6

Arthur Brooke’s The Tragic Historie of Romeus and Julius

Answer 6

Romeo and Juliet

Question 7

Boccaccio’s Decameron

Answer 7

The Winter’s Tale, All’s Well that Ends Well, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Othello, Cymbeline

Question 8

Hamlet’s Sources

Answer 8

Thomas Kyd’s Ur Hamlet, The Spanish Tragedy;
Thomas Lodge’s Wit’s Miseries, World’s Madness
Saxxo The Grammarian’s Historia Danica “History of Amleth”

Question 9

Christopher Marlowe’s Jew of Malta

Answer 9

The Merchant of Venice