by the Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1595 (Hager 116). Shakespeare is believed to have borrowed from a wide spectrum of classical tragic romances such as Hero and Leander , Tristan and Isolde , Lancelot and Guinevere , Ovid's " Pyramus and Thisbe ," and Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (Hager 33-34). The first