Shakespeare's Sources for The Winter's Tale

Question: Shakespeare's Sources for The Winter's Tale

Answer: Shakespeare's primary source for The Winter's Tale was the prose romance Pandosto, written in 1588 by Robert Greene. Incidentally, Greene's reference to Shakespeare in his autobiography, Greene's Groatsworth of Wit (1592), was the first literary reference to Shakespeare on record. You can read Greene's comments in my feature, a Shakespeare Timeline: Part 1 (1558-1599).