Note 17 — Chapter XVII · THE DRAMA

The novel by Cinthio himself on which this play is founded was dramatised by Whetstone; but that Shakespeare had seen Cinthio’s dramatic version also may be inferred from a minute circumstance. Cinthio’s play, not his novel or Whetstone’s adaptation of it, has a character named Angela, whose name disappears fromMeasure for Measure, but who bequeaths Angelo as that of her brother, whom Cinthio calls Juristi, and Whetstone Andrugio.