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

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

(perhaps) Boccaccio, Giovanni. Theseida (f. pr. 1475). Poss. read in French trans.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales (f. pr. 1477). 'The Knight's Tale.' Prob. read in Thomas Speght's edition of Chaucer's works (1598).

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

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

(perhaps) Sidney, Philip. 'The Lady of May', entertainment appended to 1598 edtn. of the Arcadia.

(perhaps) Sidney, Philip. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1590). Bk. 4.

REFERENCE : Eugene Waith, ed. The Two Noble Kinsmen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. 26-9.