SOURCES FOR FOUR PLAYS IN ONE

'The Triumph of Honour'

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales (f. pr. 1477). 'The Franklin's Tale.'

'The Triumph of Love'

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Decamerone (collection of tales, 1471). 5.7.

'The Triumph of Death'

(perhaps) Achelly, Thomas. A Most Lamentable and Tragical History ... [of] Violenta (verse narrative, 1576).

(perhaps) Bandello, Matteo. Novelle (1554). 'Didaco and Violenta.'

(perhaps) Painter, William. The Palace of Pleasure (collection of tales, 1566-7). Tome 1, Novel 42.

'The Triumph of Time'

No sources have been identified for the narrative of this section of the play.

REFERENCE : Cyrus Hoy, ed. 'Four Plays in One.' The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon. Gen. ed. Fredson Bowers. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966-96. 8.230-2.