Eight novels employed by English dramatic poets of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.Originally published by Barnaby Riche in the year 1581, and reprinted from a copy of that date in the Bodleian library
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Title: Eight novels employed by English dramatic poets of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.Originally published by Barnaby Riche in the year 1581, and reprinted from a copy of that date in the Bodleian library
Other titles: Riche his Farewell to militarie profession
Classmark: English G-0.02/SHA
Creator(s): Rich, Barnabe (1540?-1617)
Additional creator(s): Collier, John Payne (1789-1883) (Other); Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (Other)
Related people: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Collier, John Payne
Publisher: Printed for the Shakespeare society
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1846
Language: English
Size and medium: xvi, 224 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/175839
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000800769705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
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With reproduction of original t.-p.: Riche his Farewell to militarie profession: conteining verie pleasaunt discourses fit for a peaceable tyme, Gathered together... by Barnabe Riche ... Imprinted at London, by Robart Walley, 1581.
Edited by John Payne Collier.
Several of the tales are from Italian sources. The "Conclusion" contains a ninth story, Belthaser, similar to Machiavelli's Marriage of Belphegor.
Contents: Sappho, duke of Mantona.--Of Apolonius and Silla.--Of Nicander and Lucilla.--Of Fineo and Fiamma.--Of two brethren and their wives.--Of Gonsales and his vertuous wife Agatha.--Of Aramanthus, borne a leper.--Of Phylotus and Emilia.--Conclusion.
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