Italian Tales from the Age of Shakespeare

So delightful and powerful are these tales of murderous husbands, clever wives, gullible young men and cruel rulers, that many sixteenth and seventeenth century dramatists based their plays on them. Included are sources and analogues of Measure for Measure, All’s Well that Ends Well, Twelfth Night, Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass and Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi.