Annotated Bibliography

Works Cited

Brunvand, Jan Harold. "The Folktale Origin of the Taming of the Shrew." Shakespeare Quarterly 1966: 345-59. This paper discusses the folktales that Shakespeare used to write his play, Taming of the Shrew.  This has obvious application to my paper because it helped me study another play that Shakespeare took from an already existing story.

Marchalonis, Shirley. "Medieval Symbols and the "Gesta Romanorum"." The Chaucer Review 1974: 311-9. What was so helpful about this play was that discussion on the Gesta Romanorum, which is a collection of Italian stories.  Shakespeare used a lot of these stories for his plays.

McKnight, George H. "Germanic Elements in the Story of King Horn." PMLA 15.2 (1900): pp. 221-232.   This work was important because it shed light on the vast amount of old fiction that has not been used by Shakespeare or other writers.

Muir, Kenneth. "Saxo and Hamlet." Shakespeare Quarterly 35.3 (1984): pp. 370-372.  This article discusses the relationship between Shakespeare's Hamlet and the original work by Saxo Grammaticus.

Saxo, Grammaticus,d.ca.1204. The First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus. Ed. Oliver Elton 1861-1945. and 1850-1904 F Powell (Frederick York). London, D. Nutt, 1894.   The paper details the works of Saxo Grammaticus and allows us to understand the connection between him and Shakespeare better.

Select Tales from the Gesta Romanorum. Ed. Charles Swan tr. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1887.  This is another paper that discusses the Gesta Romanorum and gave insight into the popularity and purpose of these stories that Shakespeare used. 

Sperber, Hans. "The Conundrums in Saxo's Hamlet Episode." PMLA 64.4 (1949): pp. 864-870.  Another work that discusses and compares Shakespeare's Hamlet and that of Saxo Grammaticus.  This was helpful because it emphasized some key differences in the works.

Weiss, R. “Bandello's Fiction. an Examination of the Novelle.” The Modern Language Review, Jul., 1957, Vol.52(3), p.443-444, 1957.  This was very important because it gave insight to the works of Mattello Bandello and all that he wrote.  He was a very important writer that pre-dates Shakespeare.