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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 BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)  ,
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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
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translation (Histoires tragiques) of
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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
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play . Broke perished by shipwreck in 1563, on his way from
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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
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prose translation from the Palace of Pleasure, edited by Mr P . A . Daniel for the New Shakespere Society (1875) .

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