Shakespeare’s Sources Archetypes of tragic lovers in Greek mythology Dante Alighieri – Divine Comedy (1308-1320) Giovanni Boccaccio – Decameron (1353) Mascuccio Salernitano – “Mariotto and Gianozza” (1476) Luigi de Porto – “Giulietta e Romeo” (1524) Mattero Bandello – “Giulietta e Romeo” (1554) Pierre Boaistuau – Histories Tragiques (1559) Arthur Brooke – The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562) William Painter – “The Goodly History of the True and Constant Love of Romeo and Juliett” (1567) William Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet (1591-1595)
This is a slide from my senior project on Romeo and Juliet. I might put the entire presentation up here one day.










