Eight novels employed by English dramatic poets of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
By: Originally published by Barnaby Riche in the year 1581, and reprinted from a copy of that date in the Bodleian library.
Contributors: Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883, ed.
Series: Shakespeare society. Publications.; no. 33
Publisher: Printed for the Shakespeare society
Published: 1846
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources; English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700
Other titles: Riche his Farewell to militarie profession.
Notes: Vol. IX, no. 1, in the L. C. set, with general t.-p.: Early prose and poetical tracts ... vol. I. 1853.
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.
Table of contents: title: Sappho, duke of Mantona.; title: Of Apolonius and Silla.; title: Of Nicander and Lucilla.; title: Of Fineo and Fiamma.; title: Of two brethren and their wives.; title: Of Gonsales and his vertuous wife Agatha.; title: Of Aramanthus, borne a leper.; title: Of Phylotus and Emilia.; title: Conclusion.