Excerpt from The Plays of William Shakespeare, Vol. 9: Containing Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline, And, King Lear <p>Since 1.011q and Chaucer both, make doubt upon that glofe) but Dryden goes yet further. He declares it to have been written in Latin verfe, and that Chaucer tranflated it. Lollius was a hifiorio grapher of Urbino in Italy. Shakefpeare received the greateii part: of his materials for the firuéiure of this play from the Trcye Bakeof Lydgate. Lydgate was not much more than a tranflator of Guido Of Columpna, who was ofmefiina in Sicily, and wrote his Hyiory of Troy in Latin, after Ditfiilys Cretenfis, and Dares Phry 'us, in 1287. On thefe, as Mr. Arton Oblierves, he engraft many new romantic inventions, which therade of his age dit'iated, and which the connefiion between Grecian and Gothic fiétion eafily admitted; at the fame time comprehending in his plan the The ban and Argonautic fiories from Ovid, Statius, and Valerius Flac cus. Guido's work was publilhed at Cologne in an, again in at Stralburgh and zhzdem 1489. It appears to have been tranflated by Raoul le Feure, at Cologne, into French, from whom Caxton rendered it into Englifh in 1471, under the title of his Recuyel, &c. Fo that there muft have been yet fome earlier edition of Guido's performance than I have hitherto feen or heard Of, unlefs his firfi tranflator had recourfe to a ma nufcript. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.