The Pattern of Painful Adventures explained

The Pattern of Painful Adventures (1576) is a prose novel.^[1] A later edition, printed in 1607 by Valentine Simmes and published by Nathaniel Butter, was a source for William Shakespeare's play Pericles, Prince of Tyre.^[2] There was at least one intermediate edition, around 1595.^[3]

It was a translation by Lawrence Twine of the tale of Apollonius of Tyre from John Gower's Confessio Amantis (in Middle English verse). It is also said to be translated from a French version.^[4] William Henry Schofield stated that Shakespeare used both sources.^[5]

External links

• British Library - Shakespeare Quartos

Notes and References

1. David Skeele, Pericles: Critical Essays (2000), p. 66.
2. Web site: Pericles, Prince of Tyre the play by William Shakespeare. www.william-shakespeare.info.
3. Laura A. Loomis, Medieval Romance in England: A Study of the Sources and Analogues of the Non-Cyclic Metrical Romances (1969), p. 165.
4. Web site: Archived copy . 1 August 2023 . 21 May 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110521042907/http://www.rsc.org.uk/picturesandexhibitions/action/viewexhibition?exhibitionid=7&sectionid=6 . dead .
5. [William Henry Schofield]