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4
Quoted in David George: “Shakespeare and Pembroke’s Men,” page 312.

Chapter Thirty-three

1
Quoted in George: “Shakespeare and Pembroke’s Men,” page 307.

2
Quoted in Gross (ed.):
After Shakespeare
, page 23.

3
Quoted in Bate (ed.):
The Romantics on Shakespeare
, page 279.

Chapter Thirty-four

1
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume Two, page 831.

2
Quoted in Nungezer:
A Dictionary of Actors
, page 78.

3
ibid., page 72.

4
Quoted in C.T. Onions and S. Lee (eds):
Shakespeare’s England
, Volume One, page 301.

5
ibid., page 304.

Chapter Thirty-five

1
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume One, page 347.

2
Quoted in A. Freeman:
Thomas Kyd
, page 25.

3
The best analysis of the whole episode is to be found in Charles Nicholl’s masterly
The Reckoning
.

4
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume One, page 369.

5
Quoted in G.P.V Akrigg:
Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton
, page 182.

6
Quoted in C.C. Stopes:
The Life of Henry, 3rd Earl of Southampton
, page 56.

7
Quoted in Akrigg,
Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton
, page 197.

8
ibid.

9
Quoted in Drake:
Shakespeare and His Times
, Volume Two, page 12.

Chapter Thirty-six

1
Richard Wilson:
Secret Shakespeare
, page 134.

2
Quoted in F.
Yates: John Florio
, page 127.

3
See in particular Stewart Trotter:
Love’s Labour’s Found
.

4
Translation by H.T. Lowe-Parker.

5
ibid.

Chapter Thirty-eight

1
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume One, page 207.

2
Quoted in Nungezer:
A Dictionary of Actors
, page 219.

3
Quoted in M.C. Bradbrook:
The Rise of the Common Player
, page 72.

4
Quoted in Irwin Smith:
Shakespeare’s Blackfriars Playhouse
, page 258.

Chapter Thirty-nine

1
Quoted in M. Hattaway:
Elizabethan Popular Theatre
, page 72.

2
Quoted in Joseph:
Elizabethan Acting
, page 149.

3
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume One, page214.

4
ibid.

5
Quoted by Daniel Seltzer: “Elizabethan Acting in Othello,”
Shakespeare Quarterly
, 10 (1959).

6
Quoted in M. White:
Renaissance Drama in Action
, page 59.

7
Quoted in Joseph:
Elizabethan Acting
, page 17.

Chapter Forty

1
Quoted in Joseph:
Elizabethan Acting
, page 9.

2
Quoted in P. Thomson:
Shakespeare’s Theatre
, page 110.

3
Fynes Moryson:
Itinerary
(London, 1617), page 476.

4
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 278.

5
John Southworth:
Shakespeare the Player
, page 173.

6
Quoted in J.B. Matthews:
Molière: His Life and Works
, page 39.

7
Quoted in
Shakespeare Survey
, 17, page 197.

8
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume One, page 84.

9
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 262.

10
ibid., page 190.

11
Quoted in Michael Wood:
In Search of Shakespeare
, page 146.

12
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 191.

Chapter Forty-one

1
Quoted in Gross (ed.):
After Shakespeare
, page 24.

2
Quoted in Schoenbaum:
Shakespeare: A Documentary Life
, page 133.

3
I am indebted for these suggestions to Rolf Soellner’s essay, “Shakespeare’s Lucrece and the Garnier—Pembroke Connection,”
Shakespeare Studies
XV (1982).

4
Quoted in Halliwell-Phillips:
Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare
, page 119.

5
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 197.

6
John Donne: letter to Sir Henry Goodere in
Letters to Severall Persons of Honour
(1651).

Chapter Forty-two

1
Quoted in R. Fraser:
Shakespeare: The Later Years
, page 9.

2
Quoted in R.A. Foakes (ed.):
The Comedy of Errors
, Arden edition (London, 1962), pages 116-7.

3
Quoted in Picard:
Elizabeth’s London
, page 206.

4
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume One, page 255.

5
Quoted in W. Nicholas Knight:
Shakespeare’s Hidden Life
, page 159.

6
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume One, page 255.

Chapter Forty-three

1
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume One, page 393.

2
See Peter Ackroyd:
Albion
(London: 2002).

Chapter Forty-five

1
Quoted in Bate (ed.):
The Romantics on Shakespeare
, page 182.

2
Quoted in Emrys Jones:
Scenic Form in Shakespeare
, page 4.

3
Quoted in R. Dutton:
William Shakespeare: A Literary Life
, page 113.

4
Quoted in Gross (ed.):
After Shakespeare
, pages 23-4.

Chapter Forty-six

1
Quoted in Marchette Chute:
Shakespeare of London
, page 81.

2
Quoted in Richard Dutton: “The Birth of the Author,” in R.B. Parker and S. Zitner (eds):
Elizabethan Theater
, page 73.

Chapter Forty-seven

1
Quoted in Gross (ed.):
After Shakespeare
, page 169.

2
Quoted in Ivor Brown:
Shakespeare and the Actors
, page71.

Chapter Forty-eight

1
Quoted in Ian Archer:
The Pursuit of Stability
, page 1.

2
ibid., page 10.

3
Quoted in Schoenbaum:
Shakespeare’s Lives
, page 462.

4
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 253.

5
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume One, page 421.

6
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume One, page 353.

7
See Peter Farey:
Deception in Deptford
, on the internet—
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/˜hadland/tvp/tvpintro.htm

8
ibid.

9
Quoted in Jonathan Bate (ed.):
Titus Andronicus
, Arden edition (London, 1995), pages 43-4.

Chapter Forty-nine

1
Quoted in Peter Thomson:
Shakespeare’s Professional Career
, page 117.

2
Julia Kristeva:
Tales of Love
, trans. L.S. Roudiez (New York, 1987), page 9.

3
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume One, page 416.

Chapter Fifty

1
I am indebted to Katherine Duncan-Jones for this observation.

2
Quoted in Mark Eccles:
Shakespeare in Warwickshire
, page 84.

3
Noted in Brian Morris (ed.):
The Taming of the Shrew
, Arden edition (London, 1981), page 84.

4
See Duncan-Jones:
Ungentle Shakespeare
, page 157. My discussion of this issue owes a great deal to her perspicacity.

Chapter Fifty-one

1
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume One, pages 455-6.

2
Quoted in Schoenbaum:
Shakespeare: A Documentary Life
, page 108.

3
Quoted in Leslie Hotson:
Shakespeare versus Shallow
, page 12.

4
Quoted in J.Q. Adams:
A Life of William Shakespeare
, page 227.

5
Quoted in Park Honan:
Shakespeare: A Life
, page 220.

6
Quoted in Bate (ed.):
The Romantics on Shakespeare
, page 357.

Chapter Fifty-two

1
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume One, page 248.

2
Quoted in Adams:
A Life of William Shakespeare
, page 163.

3
Quoted in Nungezer:
A Dictionary of Actors
, page 73.

4
Quoted in R. Dutton:
William Shakespeare: A Literary Life
, page 42.

5
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume One, page 559.

6
Quoted in Katherine Duncan-Jones (ed.):
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
, Arden edition (London, 1997), page 2.

7
Quotations from Trotter:
Love’s Labour’s Found
, page 68.

Chapter Fifty-three

1
Quoted in Gross (ed.):
After Shakespeare
, page 17.

2
I am indebted for this information to Eric Partridge:
Shakespeare’s Bawdy
, passim.

3
Quoted in Stone:
The Family, Sex and Marriage in England
, page 519.

4
Ted Hughes:
Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being
, page 164.

Chapter Fifty-five

1
Quoted in Schoenbaum:
Shakespeare’s Lives
, p. 14.

2
Quoted in Schoenbaum:
Shakespeare: A Documentary Life
, page 178.

3
Quoted in Honan:
Shakespeare: A Life
, page 237.

4
Quoted in Schoenbaum:
Shakespeare: A Documentary Life
, page 178.

Chapter Fifty-six

1
Quoted in Nicholl:
A Cup of News: The Life of Thomas Nashe
, page 243.

2
ibid.

3
Quoted in Thomson:
Shakespeare’s Professional Career
, page 120.

4
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 196.

5
Quoted in Brian Gibbons (ed.):
Romeo and Juliet
, Arden edition (London, 1980), page 3.

6
I am indebted for this observation to Nicholl:
A Cup of News
, pages 2423.

7
Fynes Moryson:
Itinerary
, page 476.

8
Quoted in Thomson:
Shakespeare’s Professional Career
, page 85.

Chapter Fifty-seven

1
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume One, page 95.

2
E.A.J. Honigmann:
The Stability of Shakespeare’s Texts
, page 188.

3
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 194.

4
ibid., pages 197-8.

5
See J.B. Leishmann (ed.):
The Three Parnassus Plays
, passim.

6
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 195.

Chapter Fifty-eight

1
Quoted in Nicholas Knight:
Shakespeare’s Hidden Life
, page 199.

2
ibid., page 205.

3
ibid., page 216.

4
Quoted in E.A.J. Honigmann:
Shakespeare’s Impact on His Contemporaries
, page 8.

5
ibid., pages 8-9.

Chapter Fifty-nine

1
Quoted in Kay:
Shakespeare: His Life, Work and Era
, page 191.

2
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 211.

3
ibid., page 245.

4
Quoted in Wood:
In Search of Shakespeare
, page 326.

5
Quoted in Schoenbaum:
Shakespeare: A Documentary Life
, page 153.

6
Quoted in Garry O’Connor:
William Shakespeare: A Popular Life
, page 161.

Chapter Sixty

1
John Stow:
The Survey of London
(London, 1912), page 154.

2
Quoted in R.A. Foakes (ed.):
Henslowe’s Diary
, page 277.

3
Quoted in Peter Ackroyd:
London
(London, 2000), page 690.

4
Quoted in T.F. Ordish:
Shakespeare’s London
, page 129.

Chapter Sixty-one

1
See Bernard Beckerman:
Shakespeare at the Globe
, page 106.

Chapter Sixty-three

1
Quoted in Grace Ioppolo:
Revising Shakespeare
, page 213.

2
Quoted in John Southworth:
Shakespeare the Player
, page 113.

3
ibid.

4
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume One, page 97.

Chapter Sixty-four

1
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume One, page 116.

2
Quoted in C.S. Baskerville:
The Elizabethan Jig
, page 108.

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