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- ↑ Thomas H. McNeal, "The Clerk's Tale as a Possible Source for Pandosto," Papers of the Modern Language Association Vol. 47 No. 2 (June 1932), pp. 453-60.
- ↑ Edward Chaney, The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance,(Routledge, 2000) p. 12.
- ↑ F. E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964, Baltimore, Penguin, 1964; pp. 328, 352.
