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Bullough, noting Shakespeare's indebtedness to Montemayor in ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'', suggested that he "may have used a play now lost, ''The History of Felix and Felio(s?)mena'' which was played 'by her majesty's servants on the Sunday next after New Year's Day' (1585) and was probably a pastoral based on Montemayor" (1.206).
Bullough, noting the indebtedness of Shakespeare's ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'' to "Felix and Felismena" in Jorge de Montemayor's ''Diana'', suggested that he "may have used a play now lost, ''The History of Felix and Felio(s?)mena'' which was played 'by her majesty's servants on the Sunday next after New Year's Day' (1585) and was probably a pastoral based on Montemayor" (1.206).
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See also [[WorksCited|Wiggins]] serial number 762.
See also [[WorksCited|Wiggins, ''Catalogue'' (#762)]].  
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Playwright's Name (1585)


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Bullough, noting the indebtedness of Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona to "Felix and Felismena" in Jorge de Montemayor's Diana, suggested that he "may have used a play now lost, The History of Felix and Felio(s?)mena which was played 'by her majesty's servants on the Sunday next after New Year's Day' (1585) and was probably a pastoral based on Montemayor" (1.206).

See also Wiggins, Catalogue (#762).


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