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CONTENT WARNING: This episode will mention various instances of suicide and attempted suicide and death through literary history.
To be or not to be...as much of a Shakespeare nerd as Jackie is! Join us for a textual transmissionary tale of just where Romeo and Juliet could come from. And no, it's NOT Verona, Italy!
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Adaptations/stories Jackie mentions:
- Ovid "Pyramus and Thisbe" (Metamorphoses, 8 CE)
- Geoffrey Chaucer Legend of Good Women (1386)
- Masuccio Saleritano "Mariotto and Ganozza" (Il Novellino/Cinquante Novelle, 1476)
- Luigi Da Porto Historia novellamente ritrovata di due nobili amanti (1530/1531 pub. p.h.) - In Italian
- Matteo Bandello’s Giuletta e Romeo (1554)
- William Shakespeare "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1591-1596 appr.)
- Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet (1591-1596 appr.)
- Romeo and Juliet Before Shakespeare - Four Early Stories of Star-crossed Love (ed. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2000)
Other books we mention:
Other sources:
- “Metamorphoses” (Britannica.com)
- “Shakespeare and Chaucer: Influence and Authority on the Renaissance Stage” (Teramura, 2016)
- “Shakespeare’s Quartos: Romeo and Juliet” (British Library)
- “Ovid’s Pyramus and Thisbe.” (Duke, 1971)
- “Chaucer’s Pyramus and Thisbe.” (Spisak, 1984)
- “Midsummer Night’s Dream.” (Shakespeare’s Globe)
- “Pyramus and Thisbe Context” (Schmoop.com)
- “Pyramus and Thisbe,” (Britannica, 2023)
- The Original Romeo and Juliet (Pelkofsk, 2015)
- "The Basics" (The British Library, n.d.)
- "The Legend of Good Women" (The British Library)
- "Black Death" (History.com, 2023)
- "The True Story of Romeo and Juliet" (Veronissima.com, n.d.)
- "Romeo and Juliet before Shakespeare" (Levenson, 1984)
- "Luigi da Porto" (Thehistoryofromeoandjuliet.weebly.com, n.d.)
- "Sources: The Genealogy of Romeo and Juliet" (The Bill Shakespeare Project, 2010)
- "Pre- and Post-Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet" (Artsedge, Kennedy Center, n.d.)