Shakespeare & John Florio: Proverbs
Explore the similarities between John Florio’s proverbs and the proverbs found in Shakespeare’s plays. John Florio’s First Fruits (1578), Second Fruits (1591) and Giardino di Ricreatione (1591) contain proverbs that today are erroneously attributed to Shakespeare but were originally written by John Florio. Clara Longworth de Chambrun, Shakespeare’s scholar, in her book, Shakespeare, Actor-Poet reported the similarities between the two writers concerning proverbs: […]