Palace of Pleasure
Palace of Pleasure,a collection of translations into English of ‘Pleasant Histories and excellent Novelles…out of divers good and commendable Authors’, made by William Painter ( c. 1525 – 95 ), Clerk of the Ordnance, and published in 1566 , 1567 , and 1575 . Many of the translations are from Boccaccio , Bandello , and Marguerite of Navarre (see Heptameron ), but Painter also drew on Herodotus , Livy , and Gellius . The book provided a storehouse of plots for Elizabethan writers, especially dramatists; Shakespeare probably used it for The Rape of Lucrece and All's Well that Ends Well , and Webster certainly drew the plot of The Duchess of Malfi from it. It was edited by Joseph Jacobs ( 1890 ).
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