Note 117 — Chapter III · ANCESTRY OF SHAKESPEARE’S ROMAN PLAYS

I do not know what authority Mr. Wyndham has for his statement that Amyot’s version of the Morals “fell comparatively dead.” It is, of course, much less read nowadays, but at the time it ran through three editions in less than four years (1572, 1574, 1575), and for the next half century there are frequent reprints.