SOURCES FOR TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (Shakespeare)

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

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

Della Colonne, Guido. The History, Siege and Destruction of Troy. Trans. John Lydgate (pr. 1513). 1555 edtn.

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

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

Homer. The Iliad . Read in George Chapman's trans., Seven Books of the Iliads of Homer (1598), and also perh. a trans. other than Chapman's.

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

REFERENCE : David Bevington, ed. Troilus and Cressida. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Thomson, 1998. 375-97.