Theseus1.0009_Shakespeare

OGCMA s.v. "Theseus"

William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616, and John Fletcher, 1579-1625. The Two Noble Kinsmen. Drama (romance), adaptation of Chaucer's A Knight's Tale. c. 1613. No recorded performance in in Shakespeare's lifetime. Published London: Waterson, 1634.

This play takes place in Athens, during the rule of Theseus and Hippolyta.

The Riverside Shakespeare. G. Blakemore Evans, general ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1974.

Phillip Edwards. Shakespeare: A Writer's Progress. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. 1986, p. 34.

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