ABSTRACT
IN THE PAST two hundred years considerable attention has been given to Shakespeare's indebtedness for elements of his plots and characterization to earlier English and foreign authors. Editors of individual plays (as in the New Variorum and Arden editions) have provided whole texts or extracts from alleged sources and analogues, and Sir Israel Gollancz in his valuable 'Shakespeare Library' printed material bearing on thirteen plays with introductions by various scholars to which subsequent students must be gratefully indebted. This collection is now however very rare.
