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BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 628 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BROKE, or See also:BROOKE, See also:ARTHUR (d. 1563)  , See also:English author, wrote the first English version of the See also:story of Romeo and Juliet . The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Julieit (1562) is a rhymed See also:account of the story, taken, not directly from See also:Bandello'scollection of novels (1554), but from the See also:French See also:translation (Histoires tragiques) of See also:Pierre Boaistuau or Boisteau, surnamed Launay, and See also:Francois de Belleforest . See also: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 See also:Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet, there is no reasonable doubt that it may be regarded as the See also:main source of the See also:play . Broke perished by shipwreck in 1563, on his way from See also:Newhaven to join the English troops fighting on the Huguenot See also:side in See also:France . The See also:genesis of the Juliet story, and a See also:close comparison of Shakespeare's play with Broke's version, are to be found in a reprint of the poem and of See also:William See also:Paynter's See also:prose translation from the See also:Palace of See also:Pleasure, edited by Mr P . A . See also:Daniel for the New Shakespere Society (1875) .

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