The early tragedies "Appius and Virginia", and "Tancred and Gismund" were taken from "The Palace of Pleasure". Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", "Timon of Athens", "Edward III", and "All's Well That Ends Well" are all derived from Painter's collections, the last from his translation of "Giletta of Narbonne". Other playwrights likewise made extensive use of his work and that of similar contemporary translators, with these believed to have inspired well-known works such as Beaumont and Fletcher's "Triumph of Death", John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" (from "Belleforest"), and James Shirley's "Love's Cruelty".