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BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 628 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BRI-BUN
BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563) ,
English
  author, wrote the first
English
  version of the story of Romeo and Juliet. The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Julieit (1562) is a rhymed
account
  of the story, taken, not directly from Bandello'scollection of novels (1554), but from the
French
 
translation
  (Histoires tragiques) of Pierre Boaistuau or Boisteau, surnamed Launay, and Francois de Belleforest. Broke adds some detail to the story as told by Boisteau. As the poem contains many scenes which are not known to exist elsewhere, but which were adopted by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet, there is no reasonable doubt that it may be regarded as the
main
  source of the play. Broke perished by shipwreck in 1563, on his way from Newhaven to join the English troops fighting on the Huguenot side in France.
The
genesis
  of the Juliet story, and a close comparison of Shakespeare's play with Broke's version, are to be found in a reprint of the poem and of William
Paynter
 's
prose
 
translation
  from the Palace of Pleasure, edited by Mr P. A.
Daniel
  for the New Shakespere Society (1875).


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