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: Publications / Shakespeare Society of London -- v. 9; Publications / Shakespeare Society of London -- no. 33; Publications (Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) : 1966) -- v. 9.; Publications (Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) -- v. 33.
Publisher: Kraus Reprint
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Nendeln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Sources.; English fiction -- Early modern (to 1700).
Genres: Sources.
Other titles: Riche his Farewell to militarie profession.
Notes: Reprint of the 1846 edition.

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.

Issued with: Pierce Penniless's supplication to the Devil / Thomas Nash -- Fools and jesters / Robert Armin.
Table of contents: value: Sappho, duke of Mantona.; value: Of Apolonius and Silla.; value: Of Nicander and Lucilla.; value: Of Fineo and Fiamma.; value: Of two brethren and their wives.; value: Of Gonsales and his vertuous wife Agatha.; value: Of Aramanthus, borne a leper.; value: Of Phylotus and Emilia.; value: The conclusion.