Chariclea (Theagenes and Chariclea)

Anon (1572)


Historical Records

Theatrical Provenance

At Court

Probable Genre(s)

Romance.

Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues

An Æthiopian historie written in Greeke by Heliodorus. tran. Thomas Underdowne (London: Frances Coldock, 1569?). STC (2nd ed.), 13041.

The amorous and tragicall tales of Plutarch wherevnto is annexed the hystorie of Cariclea & Theagenes, and the sayings of the Greeke philosophers. trans. James Sandford (London: Leonard Maylard, 1567). STC (2nd ed.), 20072.

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