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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Arthur_Brooke_(poet)Arthur Brooke (poet) - Wikipedia

    Arthur Brooke (died 19 March 1563) was an English poet who wrote and created various works including The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562), considered to be William Shakespeare's chief source for his tragedy Romeo and Juliet (published in 1597).

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  3. www.britannica.com › biography › Arthur-BrookeArthur Brooke | Renaissance Poet, Satirist, Narrative Poetry

    Arthur Brooke was an English poet and author of The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet (1562), the poem on which Shakespeare based Romeo and Juliet. It is written in rhymed verse and was taken from the French translation of one of the stories in Matteo Bandello’s Novelle (1554–73; French.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Tragical_History_of_Romeus_andThe Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet - Wikipedia

    The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet is a narrative poem by Arthur Brooke, first published in 1562 by Richard Tottel, which was a key source for William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It is a translation and adaptation of a French story by Pierre Boaistuau, itself derived from an Italian novella by Matteo Bandello.

  5. shakespeare-navigators.ewu.edu › romeo › BrookeIndexRomeus and Juliet: Index - Eastern Washington University

    Shakespeare's primary source for Romeo and Juliet was Arthur Brooke's Romeus and Juliet, first published in 1562, two years before Shakespeare's birth, and reprinted in 1587, about eight years before the first performance of Romeo and Juliet.

  6. www.britannica.com › topic › The-Tragicall-Historye-of-RomeusThe Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet | poetry by Broke

    In Arthur Brooke …English poet and author of The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet (1562), the poem on which Shakespeare based Romeo and Juliet. It is written in rhymed verse and was taken from the French translation of one of the stories in Matteo Bandello’s Novelle (1554–73; French trans., 1564–82). Brooke altered… Read More

  7. www.oxfordreference.com › display › 10Arthur Brooke - Oxford Reference

    May 24, 2024 · Quick Reference. (d. 1563) English author of the long poem. The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562), on which Shakespeare based Romeo and Juliet. From: Brooke, Arthur in A Dictionary of Shakespeare ». Subjects: Literature — Shakespeare studies and criticism.

  8. journals.sagepub.com › doi › fullReading politics in 1562: Arthur Brooke’s - SAGE Journals

    Feb 24, 2020 · Résumé. The English Romeo and Juliet tradition is seldom read in a political light. This essay reconsiders the political status of the story’s first English adaptation by Arthur Brooke (which Shakespeare would later borrow heavily from) by reading it against a large dataset of 1562 printed texts.