Sources beginning with the letter P
Painter, William. The Palace of Pleasure (collection of tales, 1566-7).
Palaephatus. On Unbelievable Tales.
Paris, Matthew. Monarchi Albanensis Angli, Historia Maior (pr. 1571).
Pasqualigo, Luigi. Il Fedele (Italian play, 1576).
Pasquier, Étienne. Les Recherches de la France (pr. 1560-5).
Patient Grisel, A Most Pleasant Ballad of (pr. 1593; earliest extant edtn., 1631).
Peele, George. The Battle of Alcazar (perf. 1589).
Peele, George. The Merrie Conceited Jests of George Peele (1607).
Perondinus, Petrus. Magni Tamerlanis Scytharum Imperatoris Vita (1553).
Petrus de Abano. Heptameron, sev Elementa Magica (pr. c.1565).
Piccolomini, Alessandro. L’Alessandro (Italian play, 1550).
Pliny the Elder. Naturalis Historia.
Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. Trans. Thomas North (1595).
Polemon, John. The Second Part of the Book of Battles Fought in Our Age (1587).
Powel, David. The History of Cambria (1584).
Proclamation ... Against the Slanders Laid on the Evangelical and Reformed Religion, A (1618).
Proclamation ... of Gelderland and County of Zutphen, A (1618).
Procopius. History of the Wars.
Proctor, Thomas. A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions (anthology, 1578)
Prodromus, Theodorus. Rhodanthes et Dosiclis Amorum.
Puteanus, Erycius. Eryci Puteani Comus, sive Phagesiposia Cimmeria Somnium (1606).