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- LUCRECE
i|.
household
;
Tarquin
warns
Lucrece
he
will place.
at
her
side
<some worthless
slave of
thine
',
i.
e.
of
Lucrece
(f
i
f).
Chaucer
and
Bandello
are
both
here
in
agreement
with
Shakespeare
(cf.
Chaucer's
<thy knave'
in
Legend^
1807;
and
Bandello's
<
uno
dei
tuoi
servi
').
From
either,
the
English
poet
mighthave
adopted
the
detail.
In
any
case
he
owed
nothing,
at
this
point,
to
Painter.
Jn
his
expansive
and
discursive
handling
of the
theme
Banddlo's
Shakespeare
differs
from
all
his
predecessors
save
one.
In
that
"°''^''
regard
he can
only
be
compared
with
the
Italian
novelist
Ban-
dello. Bandello
mainly
depends
on
Livy
and
is
sparing of
poetic
ornament.
But
he
prolongs
the
speeches
of
the
heroinewith
a
liberality
to
which
Shakespeare's
poem
alone
offers
a
parallel.
Bandello's
long-winded
novel
was accessible
in a
French version
—
in
the
<
Histoires
Tragiques
'of
Franqois
de
Belleforest.
Shakespearean
students
know
that
Bandello's collection
of
tales,
either
in
the
original
Italian,
or
in
the
French
translation,
was
the
final
source
of
the plot of
at
least
four
of
Shakespeare's
plays,
— K^meo
and
Juliet^
Much
Ado
about
Nothings Twelfth Nighty
and
Hamlet.
It
is
not
customary
to
associate
Shakespeare's
poem
of Lucrece
with
Bandello's work,
but,
although
the resemblances
mayprove
to
be
accidental,
they
are
sufficient
to
suggest
the
possibility
that
Shakespeare had recourse
to
the
Italian
novelist,
when penning
his
second
narrative
poem.
One parallel between Bandello's novel and Shakespeare's
Lucrece will suffice. Livy emphasizes more deliberately than
Ovid the pretence of madness in Brutus, the avenger of
Lucrece's wrong. Bandello liberally developed Livy's notice
of Brutus' mysterious behaviour on lines which Shakespeare
seems to have followed. Brutus was, according to Shake-
speare's poem, < supposed a fool ' (i 8 1 9) :—
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