(perhaps) Accademia degli Intronati. Gl’Ingannati. (Italian play, f. pr. 1537).

(perhaps) Appolonius of Tyre. The Pattern of Painful Adventures. Trans. Laurence Twine (1594).

Appian. Roman History.

(perhaps) Ariosto, Lodovico. Orlando Furioso (Italian verse narrative, 1516).

Averell, William. A Marvellous Combat of Contrarieties (1588).

(perhaps) Baldwin, William. A Mirror for Magistrates (1559).

(perhaps) Bandello, Matteo. Novelle (1554).

Beaumont, Francis. The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn (1613)

(perhaps) Beaumont, Francis, and John Fletcher. The Coxcomb (perf. 1609)

Belleforest, François de. Histoires Traguiques (collection of tales, pr. 1560-1580).

Bible, The.

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

(perhaps) Boccaccio, Giovanni. Theseida (f. pr. 1475).

(perhaps) Boethius, Hector [a.k.a. Boece]. The History and Chronicles of Scotland. Trans. J. Bellenden (c.1540).

(perhaps) Bright, Timothy. A Treatise of Melancholy (1584).

Brooke, Arthur. The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (verse narrative, 1562).

(perhaps) Buchanan, George. Rerum Scoticarum Historia (1582).

(perhaps) Caesar and Pompey, The Tragedy of (anon. play, perf. 1595).

Camden, William. Annals: The True and Royal History of Elizabeth, Queen of England. Trans. and aug. Abraham Darcie (1625).

(perhaps) Camden, William. Remains of a Greater Work Concerning Britain, the Inhabitants Thereof (pr. 1605).

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales (f. pr. 1477).

(perhaps) Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Legend of Good Women (f. pr. 1532).

Chaucer, Geoffrey. Troylus and Criseyde (f. pr. 1483).

(perhaps) Chronicque de la Traïson et Mort de Richart Deux Roy Dengleterre (MS., c. 1400)

(perhaps) Chettle, Henry, and Thomas Dekker. Troilus and Cressida (perf. 1599).

(perhaps) Cinthio, Giraldo. Epitia (Italian play, 1583)

Cinthio, Giraldo. Hecatommithi (Italian collection of tales, 1565)

(perhaps) Créton, Jean. Histoire du Roy d’Angleterre Richard (MS, wr. c.1399).

Daniel, Samuel. Cleopatra (play, pr. 1594).

Daniel, Samuel. The First Four Books of the Civil Wars Between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York (1595).

(perhaps) Day, Angel. Daphnis and Chloe (1587).

Della Colonne, Guido. The History, Siege and Destruction of Troy. Trans. John Lydgate (pr. 1513).

(perhaps) De Montemayor, Jorge. Diana. Trans. Bartholomew Yong (1598).

(perhaps) Digges, Thomas and Dudley. Four Paradoxes, or Politic Discourses (1604).

(perhaps) Edwards, Richard. Damon and Pithias (perf. 1565).

(perhaps) Elyot, Thomas. The Governor (1531)

(perhaps) Euripides. Iphigenia at Aulis.

Fabyan, Robert. The New Chronicles of England and of France (1516).

Famous Victories of Henry V, The (play, perf. c.1588)

Fiorentino, Giovanni, Il Pecerone (pr. 1558).

Foxe, John. Acts and Monuments (f. pr. 1563).

(perhaps) Frederick of Jennen (English tale, f. pr. Antwerp, 1518).

(perhaps) Froissart, John. The Chronicles of England, France… [etc.]. Trans. Lord Berners (1523).

(perhaps) Gamelyn, Tale of (MS, wr. C14)

(perhaps) Garnier, Robert. The Tragedy of Antony. Trans. The Countess of Pembroke (1595).

Gasciogne, George. Supposes (pr. 1587).

(perhaps) Geoffrey of Monmouth. Historia Regum Brittaniae (MS., wr. C12).

(perhaps) Gernuthus, a Jew, A Ballad Showing the Extreme Cruelty of (f.pr.1620).

Goulart, Simon. ‘The Life of Octavius Caesar’, appended to Thomas North’s trans. of Plutarch (1603 edtn.)

(perhaps) Gower, John. Confessio Amantis (1483).

Grafton, Richard. A Chronicle at Large (1568).

Greene, Robert. Pandosto: The Triumph of Time (1588).

(perhaps) Greene, Robert. The Second Part of Coney-Catching (1591).

Hall, Edward. The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrate Families of Lancaster and York (1548).

Harsnett, Samuel. Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603).

(perhaps) Henryson, Robert [attrib.]. ‘The Testament of Cresseid’, pr. in The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1532).

(perhaps) Heuterus. De Rebus Burgundicus a.k.a. Rerum Burgundicum Libri Sex (1584).

Higgins, John. The Mirror for Magistrates (1574).

Holinshed, Raphael. The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577).

Homer. The Iliad.

(perhaps) Heywood, Thomas. The Iron Age, Parts 1 and 2 (perf. 1612).

(perhaps) Huon of Bordeaux. Trans. Lord Berners (pr. c. 1515).

(perhaps) Julio und Hyppolita (German play, f. pr. 1620).

King Leir (anon. play, perf. 1590).

Le Fevre, Raoul. Recuyell of the Histories of Troy. Trans. William Caxton (pr. 1475?).

Livy. Ab Urbe Condita, [i.e. The History of Rome].

(perhaps) Lodge, Thomas. The Famous, True and Historical Life of Robert, Second Duke of Normandy, Surnamed Robert the Devil (1591).

Lodge, Thomas. Rosalynd: Euphues’ Golden Legacy (1590).

(perhaps) Lucian. Timon, or, The Misanthrope.

(perhaps) Lupton, Thomas. Siuqila: Too Good to Be True (two-part dialogue, 1580-1).

(perhaps) Lydgate, John. The Story of Thebes, pr. in Speght’s edtn. of Chaucer (1598).

(perhaps) Lyly, John. Campaspe (perf. 1598).

(perhaps) Marlowe, Christopher, and Thomas Nashe. Dido, Queen of Carthage (perf. 1587).

(perhaps) Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife, A (verse tale, pr. 1580?).

(perhaps) Moffet, Thomas. The Silkworms and Their Flies: Described in Verse (1590).

Montaigne, Michel de. Essaies (pr. 1580-88).

More, Thomas. History of Richard III (pr. 1557).

(perhaps) Munday, Anthony. Fedele and Fortunio (perf. 1584).

Munday, Anthony(?). The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune (perf. 1582).

(perhaps) Munday, Anthony. Zelauto, or The Fountain of Fame (narrative, 1580).

Nashe, Thomas. Piers Penniless his Supplication to the Devil (1592).

Ovid. Metamorphoses.

Painter, William. The Palace of Pleasure (collection of tales, 1566-7).

Plautus. Amphitryon.

Plautus. Menaechmi.

Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. Trans. Thomas North (1595).

(perhaps) Proctor, Thomas. A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions (anthology, 1578).

(perhaps) Pyot, Laurence, trans. The Orator (1596).

(perhaps) Reynoldes, Richard. The Foundation of Rhetoric (1563).

1 Richard II, or Thomas Of Woodstock (perf. 1592).

Riche, Barnabe. Riche his Farewell to the Military Profession (1581).

(perhaps) Robinson, Clement, ed. A Handful of Pleasant Delights (verse anthology, pr. c.1575).

(perhaps) Robinson, Richard, ed. Gesta Romanorum (f. pr. 1502).

(perhaps) Rowley, Samuel. When You See Me, You Know Me (perf. 1604).

(perhaps) Salernitano, Masuccio. Il Novellino (1475).

(perhaps) Sallust. Bellum Catilinae.

Scot, Reginald. The Discovery of Witchcraft (1584).

(perhaps) Secchi, Niccolò. Gl’Inganni (Italian play, pr. 1562).

(perhaps) Secchi, Niccolò. L’Interesse (Italian play, pr. 1581).

Sidney, Philip. The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1590).

Sidney, Philip. The Defence of Poesie (1595).

Sidney, Philip. ‘The Lady of May’, entertainment appended to 1598 edtn. of The Arcadia.

Speed, John. The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (1611).

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene (1590).

(perhaps) Stowe, John. The Annals of England (1592).

Stowe, John. The Chronicles of England (1580).

(perhaps) Suetonius. De Vita Caesarum.

Strachey, William. A True Repertory of the Wrack and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, knight, upon and from the Islands of the Bermudas (pr. 1625).

(perhaps) Sylvain, Alexandre. The Orator. Trans. Laurence Pyot (1596).

(perhaps) Tacitus. Annales.

(perhaps) The Taming of a Shrew (anon play, perf. 1589).

(perhaps) Tarlton’s News out of Purgatory (1590).

(perhaps) Timon (anon. play, perf. 1586).

(perhaps) Titus Andronicus, The History of (f. pr. C18).

(perhaps) Tragical End of a Gallant Lord, A Lamentable Ballad of the (ballad, f. pr. c.1625).

(perhaps) Troublesome Reign of John, King of England, Parts 1 and 2, The (perf. 1588).

True Tragedy of Richard III, The (perf. 1591).

Virgil. Aeneid.

Whetstone, George. An Heptameron of Civil Discourses (1582).

Whetstone, George. Promos and Cassandra (two-part play, pr. 1578).

(perhaps) Whetstone, George. The Rock of Regard (collection of tales, 1576).