Contexts of British Plays to 1660 Practice Test

The story told in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is often thought to be derived from the story of                     .

But full of fire and greedy hardiment,

The youthfull knight could not for ought be staide,

But forth unto the darksome hole he went,

And looked in: his glistring armor made

A litle glooming light, much like a shade,

By which he saw the ugly monster plaine,

Halfe like a serpent horribly displaide,

But th'other halfe did womans shape retaine,

Most lothsom, filthie, foule, and full of vile disdaine.

The author of the poem was a contemporary of                     .