Italian Tales from the Age of Shakespeare

During the 16th century collections of translations of novelle by Boccaccio, Bandello and others were very popular in England and had a great influence on native English works, ranging from the plays of Shakespeare and Spenser's The Faerie Queene to the first English novels. This is a collection of novelle by a variety of authors and translators, offering a short story anthology and a context in which to read Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The book contains notes, selected criticism, a glossary, text summaries and chronologies of the authors' lives and times.