Shakespeare A to Z | Shakespeare's Sources
Like most playwrights of his day, Shakespeare borrowed from an immense variety of historical, dramatic, and literary sources. He drew plots, characters, and themes from collections of histories, essays, and poems, as well as from such familiar works as the BIBLE and the writings of several ancient Greek and Roman authors. In fact there are only three Shakespearean plays (Titus Andronicus, Love’s Labor’s Lost, and The Tempest) for which scholars cannot identify a specific primary source. A major part of Shakespeare’s genius was his ability to combine material from...
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