SOURCES FOR EPICOENE

Aretino, Pietro. Il Marescolo (Italian play, 1534).

Libianus. Declamations. 26 and 27. Read in Greek trans. of Libianus's works (pr. Paris, 1606).

(perhaps) Machiavelli, Niccolò. Clitia (1537).

(perhaps) Plautus. Casina.

(perhaps) Rankins, William. Seven Satires Applied to the Week (1598).

Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night (perf. 1600).

REFERENCE : R.V. Holdsworth, ed. Epicoene. New Mermaids. London: Ernest Benn, 1979. xxii-xxviii.