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3
Quoted in Stephen Greenblatt:
Shakespearean Negotiations
, page 112.

4
Simon Callow:
Charles Laughton
, page 6.

5
Barnaby Rich:
Roome for a Gentleman
(London, 1609), page 23.

6
Quoted in J.P. Collier:
The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare
, Volume Three (London, 1931), page 145.

7
Quoted in Christine Eccles:
The Rose Theatre
, page 31.

8
Quoted in William C. Hazlitt (ed.):
The English Drama and Stage
(London, 1869), page 184.

Chapter Sixty-five

1
Quoted in M.C. Bradbrook:
John Webster
, page 21.

2
Quoted in Gurr:
Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London
, page 47.

3
ibid., page 45.

4
Quoted in Onions and Lee:
Shakespeare’s England
, Volume One, page 276.

5
Quoted in Joseph:
Elizabethan Acting
, page 141.

6
Quoted in Schoenbaum:
Shakespeare: A Documentary Life
, page 155.

Chapter Sixty-six

1
See S. Sohmer:
Shakespeare’s Mystery Play
, pages 11-13.

2
Quoted in Wood:
In Search of Shakespeare
, page 227.

3
Quoted in Drake:
Shakespeare and His Times
, Volume Two, page 2.

4
Quoted in Bate (ed.):
The Romantics on Shakespeare
, page 282.

5
Quoted in F.D. Hoeniger (ed.):
Pericles
, Arden edition (London, 1962), page 146.

6
Quoted in G. Schmidgall:
Shakespeare and the Poet’s Life
, page 125.

7
Spurgeon:
Shakespeare’s Imagery
, page 190.

8
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 214.

Chapter Sixty-seven

1
Quoted in A.R. Humphreys (ed.):
Much Ado About Nothing
, Arden edition (London, 1981), page 33.

2
D. Wiles:
Shakespeare’s Clown
, page 136.

3
Quoted in Nungezer (ed.):
A Dictionary of Actors
, page 17.

4
ibid., page 19.

Chapter Sixty-eight

1
Quoted in Gurr:
Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London
, page 155.

2
Quoted in Adams:
A Life of William Shakespeare
, pages 325-6.

3
Quoted in Leishmann (ed.):
The Three Parnassus Plays
, page 59.

4
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume Two, page 566.

5
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 199.

Chapter Sixty-nine

1
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 323.

2
ibid., page 324.

3
ibid., page 326.

4
ibid., page 325.

Chapter Seventy

1
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 42.

2
Quoted in Mark Eccles:
Shakespeare in Warwickshire
, page 99.

3
See in particular Richard Wilson:
Will Power
, pages 104-17.

Chapter Seventy-one

1
Wrightson:
English Society, 1580-1680
, page 197.

2
Quoted in Gross (ed.):
After Shakespeare
, page 162.

3
Quoted in Onions and Lee (eds):
Shakespeare’s England
, Volume One, page 42.

4
Quoted in Halliwell-Phillips:
Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare
, Volume One, page 314.

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

Chapter Seventy-two

1
Quoted in Schoenbaum:
Shakespeare: A Documentary Life
, page 165.

2
Quoted in Honan:
Shakespeare: A Life
, page 320.

3
ibid., page 319.

4
ibid., page 320.

5
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 177.

6
Quoted in Schoenbaum:
Shakespeare: A Documentary Life
, page 165.

7
ibid., page 166.

8
Quoted in Stephanie Nolen:
Shakespeare’s Face
, page 164.

9
Onions and Lee (eds):
Shakespeare’s England
, Volume Two, page 20.

10
Quoted in Duncan-Jones:
Ungentle Shakespeare
, page 197.

11
Fripp:
Shakespeare’s Stratford
, page 75.

Chapter Seventy-three

1
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 328.

2
First noticed by Katherine Duncan-Jones in
Ungentle Shakespeare
, pages 157-8.

3
Quoted in A. Cargill:
Shakespeare the Player
, page 5.

Chapter Seventy-four

1
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 189.

2
Quoted in Duncan-Jones:
Ungentle Shakespeare
, page 165.

3
See Neville Coghill:
Shakespeare’s Professional Skills
, page 78 ff.

4
Quoted in R.M. Foakes (ed.):
Henslowe’s Diary
, page 47.

Chapter Seventy-five

1
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume Two, page 588.

2
Quoted in Honan:
Shakespeare: A Life
, page 301.

3
ibid., page 299.

4
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, pages 214-15.

Chapter Seventy-six

1
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 210.

2
Quoted in Gross (ed.):
After Shakespeare
, page 216.

3
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 261.

Chapter Seventy-seven

1
Quoted in Chambers:
The Jacobean and Caroline Stage
, Volume Four, page 257.

2
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume Two, page 629.

3
Quoted in Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (eds):
The London Encyclopaedia
(London, 1983), page 37.

4
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume Two, page 629.

5
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 332.

6
ibid.

7
Quoted in G.K. Hunter (ed.):
All’s Well That Ends Well
, Arden edition (London, 1959), page xix.

Chapter Seventy-eight

1
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 123.

2
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume Two, pages 633-4.

3
ibid., page 640.

4
Quoted in A. Dures:
English Catholicism, 1558-1642
, page 44.

5
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume Two, page 654.

Chapter Seventy-nine

1
Quoted in Geoffrey Bullough:
Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare
, Volume Five, page 270.

2
Quoted in Gurr:
Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London
, page 64.

3
Frank Kermode:
Shakespeare’s Language
, page 193.

Chapter Eighty

1
Quoted in Mark Eccles:
Shakespeare in Warwickshire
, page 115.

2
ibid., page 124.

3
Quoted in Richard Wilson:
Will Power
, page 81.

4
Quoted in Kermode:
Shakespeare’s Language
, page 243.

Chapter Eighty-one

1
Quoted in Leeds Barroll:
Politics, Plague and Shakespeare’s Theatre
, page 159.

2
Quoted in Kay:
Shakespeare: His Life, Work and Era
, page 304.

3
Quoted in Duncan-Jones:
Ungentle Shakespeare
, page 204.

4
ibid., page 205.

5
Wood:
In Search of Shakespeare
, page 310.

6
Quoted in Norman Rabkin:
Shakespeare and the Common Understanding
, page 213.

7
Quoted in Roger Prior, “The Life of George Wilkins,”
Shakespeare Survey
, Volume 25 (1972), page 144.

Chapter Eighty-two

1
Quoted in Irwin Smith:
Shakespeare’s Blackfriars Playhouse
, pages 247-8.

2
Quoted in Beckerman:
Shakespeare at the Globe
, page xii.

3
Quoted in Honan:
Shakespeare: A Life
, page 346.

4
Quoted in Bate (ed.):
The Romantics on Shakespeare
, pages 282-3.

Chapter Eighty-three

1
Quoted in Philip Brockbank (ed.):
Coriolanus
, Arden edition (London, 1976), page 25.

2
Quoted in Bate (ed.):
The Romantics on Shakespeare
, page 247.

3
Quoted in Mutschmann and Wentersdorf:
Shakespeare and Catholicism
, page 103.

4
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 255.

Chapter Eighty-four

1
Quoted in Southworth:
Shakespeare the Player
, page 245.

2
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 115.

3
Spurgeon:
Shakespeare’s Imagery
, page 296.

4
Quoted in Katherine Duncan-Jones (ed.):
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
, Arden edition
(London, 1997), page 35. I am indebted generally to Professor Duncan-Jones’s introduction to this volume.

5
ibid., page 36.

6
ibid., page 49.

7
Quoted in Bate (ed.):
The Romantics on Shakespeare
, page 301.

Chapter Eighty-five

1
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 337.

2
ibid., page 338.

3
ibid., page 341.

4
Quoted in Honigmann:
Shakespeare’s Impact on His Contemporaries
, page 141.

5
ibid., page 143.

6
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 342.

Chapter Eighty-six

1
Court transcript from Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, pages 90-5.

Chapter Eighty-seven

1
Quoted in F.T. Prince (ed.):
The Poems
, Arden edition (London, 1960), page xxii.

2
Quoted in Honigmann:
Shakespeare’s Impact on His Contemporaries
, page 100.

3
ibid.

4
Quoted in Schoenbaum:
Shakespeare: A Documentary Life
, page 224.

5
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 166.

6
Quoted in Richard Wilson:
Secret Shakespeare
, page 260.

7
ibid., pages 166-7.

8
ibid., page 260.

9
ibid., page 206.

10
Quoted in Kay:
Shakespeare: His Life, Work and Era
, page 328.

11
Quoted in John Payne Collier:
The Works of William Shakespeare
(London, 1858), page ccxliv.

Chapter Eighty-eight

1
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 344.

2
Quoted in Peter Levi:
The Life and Times of William Shakespeare
, page 330.

3
Quoted in Stanley Wells:
Shakespeare: A Dramatic Life
, page 375.

4
Quoted in Bate (ed.):
The Romantics on Shakespeare
, page 556.

5
ibid., page 557.

Chapter Eighty-nine

1
Quoted in Schoenbaum:
Shakespeare: A Documentary Life
, page 230.

2
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 268.

3
ibid.

4
Quoted in Schoenbaum:
Shakespeare: A Documentary Life
, page 230.

5
Quoted in Mark Eccles:
Shakespeare in Warwickshire
, page 133.

6
Quoted in Schoenbaum:
Shakespeare: A Documentary Life
, page 231.

7
ibid.

Chapter Ninety

1
Quoted in Fripp:
Shakespeare: Man and Artist
, Volume Two, page 816.

2
Quoted in Duncan-Jones:
Ungentle Shakespeare
, page 259.

3
See Halliwell-Phillips:
Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare
, page 391.

4
Quoted in Chambers:
Shakespeare: Facts and Problems
, Volume Two, page 250.

5
Quoted in C.I. Elton:
William Shakespeare: His Family and Friends
, page 306.

6
Lucy Gent:
Albion’s Classicism
(London, 1995), page 325.

7
Quoted in Schoenbaum:
Shakespeare: A Documentary Life
, pages 249-50.

8
ibid., page 246.

9
Quoted in Schoenbaum:
Shakespeare’s Lives
, page 78.

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