SOURCES FOR WOMEN PLEASED

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales (f. pr. 1477). 'The Wife of Bath's Tale.'

De Flores, Juan. La Historia de Grisel y Mirabella [a.k.a. The History of Aurelio and Isabella] (f. Pr. 1495). Read in one of the several English translations.

REFERENCE : G.E. Bentley. The Jacobean and Caroline Stage. 6 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1941-68.