Crossword-Solution: PANDOSTO 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Lodge's _Rosalind_ and Robert Greene's _Pandosto_, the sources respectively of Shakspere's _As You Like It_ and _Winter's Tale_, are short pastoral romances, not without prettiness in their artificial way.

Another of Samela's lovers, despairing of success, "became sick for anger, and spent whole ecologues in anguish." Greene's story of "Pandosto," of "Dorastus and Fawnia," which attained a great popularity, and went through at least fourteen editions, is well known as the foundation of Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale." Shakespeare has followed Greene in the material points of the story, even so far as to make Bohemia a maritime country.

But the genius of the dramatist is manifest in the miraculous and happy ending which he substitutes for the unlawful love and inconsistent suicide of Pandosto in the work of Greene.

OLD BALLAD UPON THE "WINTER'S TALE." Some of your correspondents may be able to give me information respecting an old ballad that has very recently fallen in my way, on a story similar to that of Shakspeare's _Winter's Tale_, and in some particulars still more like Greene's novel of _Pandosto_, upon which the _Winter's Tale_ was founded.

Not a single name is given to any of the persons in my _Royal Courtly Garland_, but the places of action are reversed exactly in the same way as in Greene's novel of _Pandosto_, where what Shakspeare represents as passing in Sicily occurs in Bohemia, and _vice versa_; moreover, the error of representing Bohemia as a maritime country belongs to my ballad, as well as to the novelist and the dramatist.