The Pattern of Painful Adventures (1576) is a prose novel.
[1] A later edition, printed in 1607 by Valentine Simmes and published by Nathaniel Butter, was a source for William Shakespeare's play Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
[3] It was a translation by Lawrence Twine of the tale of Apollonius of Tyre from John Gower's Confessio Amantis (in Middle English verse).
[4] William Henry Schofield stated that Shakespeare used both sources.
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