Notes

Chapter One

1 Quoted in David Cressy: Birth, Marriage and Death, page 81.

2 Jeanne Jones: Family Life in Shakespeare’s England, page 93.

3 Robert Bearman (ed.): The History of an English Borough, page 92.

Chapter Two

1 Richard Wilson: Will Power: Essays on Shakespearian Authority, page 71.

2 ibid.

3 ibid.

Chapter Four

1 Caroline Spurgeon: Shakespeare’s Imagery, page 93.

2 ibid., page 98.

3 Jeanne Jones: Family Life in Shakespeare’s England, page 22.

4 ibid, page 33.

5 Keith Wrightson: English Society 1580-1680, page 149.

Chapter Five

1 Quoted in E.K. Chambers: William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems, Volume Two, page 247.

2 Quoted in Samuel Schoenbaum: Shakespeare’s Lives, page 5.

3 Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems, Volume Two, page 19.

4 P. Hanks and F. Hodges: A Dictionary of Surnames, page 482.

5 Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems, Volume Two, page 375.

6 Quoted in Samuel Schoenbaum: William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life, page 27.

7 Wrightson: English Society, page 52.

8 Quoted in E.I. Fripp: Shakespeare’s Stratford, page 64.

9 Schoenbaum: Shakespeare: A Documentary Life, page 14.

Chapter Six

1 Quoted in Schoenbaum: Shakespeare: A Documentary Life, page 15.

2 Quoted in Nathan Drake: Shakespeare and His Times, page 99.

3 Quoted in Mark Eccles: Shakespeare in Warwickshire, page 17.

Chapter Seven

1 Quoted in Mark Eccles: Shakespeare in Warwickshire, page 39.

2 Heinrich Mutschmann and Karl Wentersdorf: Shakespeare and Catholicism, page 147.

3 Information in Fripp: Shakespeare’s Stratford, page 31.

4 Quoted in P. Collinson (ed.): “William Shakespeare’s Religious Inheritance and Environment,” in Elizabethan Essays, page 246.

5 Alexandra Walsham: Church Papists, page 78.

Chapter Nine

1 Quoted in Drake: Shakespeare and His Times, page 116.

2 Quoted in Wrightson: English Society, page 19.

3 Quoted in Schoenbaum: Shakespeare: A Documentary Life, page 36.

4 Quoted in E.I. Fripp: Shakespeare: Man and Artist, Volume One, page 74.

Chapter Ten

1 Quoted in Fripp: Shakespeare: Man and Artist, Volume One, page 65.

Chapter Eleven

1 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems, Volume Two, pages 252-3.

2 John Palmer: Molière, His Life and Works (London, 1930), page 35.

Chapter Twelve

1 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems, Volume Two, page 264.

2 Quoted in Fripp: Shakespeare: Man and Artist, Volume One, page 83.

3 Quoted in B.L. Joseph: Elizabethan Acting, page 28.

4 Stanley Wells: Shakespeare For All Time, page 14.

5 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems, Volume Two, page 264.

6 Quoted in Joseph: Elizabethan Acting, page 11.

7 ibid., page 12.

8 Quoted in Andrew Gurr: Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London, page 80.

9 ibid., page 17.

10 Dennis Kay: Shakespeare: His Life, Work and Era, page 26.

11 Quoted in Mark Eccles: Shakespeare in Warwickshire, page 57.

Chapter Thirteen

1 Quoted in R. Savage (ed.): Minutes and Accounts of the Corporation of Stratford upon Avon, 1553-1620, Volume Two, page xlvii.

2 Nicholas Rowe: Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespeare (London, 1848), page 17.

3 Quoted in Fripp: Shakespeare: Man and Artist, Volume One, page 155.

Chapter Fourteen

1 Quoted in Jonathan Bate (ed.): The Romantics on Shakespeare, page 304.

2 Quoted in Katherine Duncan-Jones: Ungentle Shakespeare, page 14.

3 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems, Volume Two, pages 252-3.

4 ibid., page 265.

5 Quoted in Schoenbaum: Shakespeare: A Documentary Life, page 81.

6 ibid., page 80.

7 Quoted in C.C. Stopes: Shakespeare’s Warwickshire Contemporaries, page 23.

8 Fripp: Shakespeare’s Stratford, page 2.

9 Quoted in Stopes: Shakespeare’s Warwickshire Contemporaries, page 77.

Chapter Fifteen

1 T.W. Baldwin: William Shakespeare’s Small Latine and Lesse Greeke, Volume Two, page 672.

2 Quoted in E.K. Chambers: Shakespearean Gleanings, page 52.

3 Richard Wilson: Secret Shakespeare, page 57.

4 ibid., page 58.

5 Quoted in E.A.J. Honigmann: Shakespeare: The “Lost Years,” page 33.

6 A. Keen and R. Lubbock: The Annotator, page 9.

7 Quoted in Ivor Brown: How Shakespeare Spent the Day, page 167.

Chapter Sixteen

1 Quoted in Fripp: Shakespeare: Man and Artist, Volume One, page 173.

2 Edmond Malone: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, Volume Two, A Life of the Poet, page 108.

Chapter Seventeen

1 Quoted in Mark Eccles: Shakespeare in Warwickshire, page 66.

2 Quoted in Wells: Shakespeare For All Time, page 269.

3 Quoted in Schoenbaum: Shakespeare: A Documentary Life, page 72.

4 Quoted in Fripp: Shakespeare: Man and Artist, Volume One, page 191.

Chapter Eighteen

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

2 Quoted in Fripp: Shakespeare: Man and Artist, Volume One, page 195.

3 ibid., Volume Two, page 520.

Chapter Nineteen

1 Quoted in the introduction by E.I. Fripp to R. Savage (ed.): Minutes and Accounts of the Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon, Volume Four, page xxi.

2 Quoted in Edwin Nungezer: A Dictionary of Actors, page 348.

3 Quoted in Fripp: Shakespeare: Man and Artist, Volume One, page 206.

4 Quoted in Andrew Gurr: The Shakespearean Playing Companies, page 203.

Chapter Twenty

1 Quoted in J.O. Halliwell-Phillips: Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare, page 79.

2 Quoted in Schoenbaum: Shakespeare: A Documentary Life, page 101.

3 Quoted in Liza Picard: Elizabeth’s London, page 89.

Chapter Twenty-one

1 Timothy Mowl: Elizabethan and Jacobean Style, pages 13, 22 and 87.

2 Quoted in David Scott Kastan (ed.): A Companion to Shakespeare, page 43.

3 Quoted in Lawrence Manley: Literature and Culture in Early Modern London, page 431.

4 Quoted in Lawrence Manley (ed.): London in the Age of Shakespeare, page 106.

Chapter Twenty-two

1 Quoted in Lawrence Stone: The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800, page 520.

2 Quoted in Duncan-Jones: Ungentle Shakespeare, page 81.

Chapter Twenty-three

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

2 Quoted in John Gross (ed.): After Shakespeare, page 10.

3 Baldassare Castiglione: The Courtyer (London, 1928), page 33.

4 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems, Volume Two, page 266.

5 Quoted in Gross (ed.), After Shakespeare, page 7.

Chapter Twenty-four

1 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems, Volume Two, page 265.

2 Quoted in J.O. Halliwell-Phillips: Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare, Volume Two, page 288.

3 ibid.

4 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems, Volume Two, page 288.

5 ibid., page 296.

6 Quoted in Edward Burns (ed.): King Henry VI, Part One, the Arden edition (London, 2000), page 19.

7 Quoted in Charles Nicholl: The Reckoning, page 268.

Chapter Twenty-five

1 Quoted in Dennis Kay: Shakespeare, page 62.

2 Quoted in E.K. Chambers: The Elizabethan and Caroline Stage, Volume Four, page 123.

3 Quoted in Charles Knight: William Shakespeare: A Biography, page 310.

4 Quoted in Halliwell-Phillips, Volume Two, page 354.

5 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems, Volume Two, page 386.

6 ibid., page 397.

7 Quoted in Halliwell-Phillips, Volume Two, pages 355-6.

8 ibid., page 363.

9 ibid.

10 Quoted in Schoenbaum: Shakespeare: A Documentary Life, page 106.

11 Christine Eccles: The Rose Theatre, page 94.

12 Quoted in P. Whitfield White: Theatre and Reformation, page 49.

13 ibid., page 51.

Chapter Twenty-six

1 E.J.L. Scott (ed.): Letter Book of Gabriel Harvey (London, 1884), page 67.

2 Quoted in G.K. Hunter: John Lyly: The Humanist as Courtier, page 87.

3 Quoted in Charles Nicholl: A Cup of News: The Life of Thomas Nashe, page 61.

4 Quoted in F.S. Boas: Christopher Marlowe, page 241.

5 Quoted in Nicholl: The Reckoning, page 242.

6 ibid., page 474.

Chapter Twenty-seven

1 Quoted in G.L. Hosking: The Life and Times of Edward Alleyn, page 36.

2 See E.A.J. Honigmann: Shakespeare: The “Lost Years,” page 109.

3 E.B. Everitt: The Young Shakespeare, page 61.

Chapter Twenty-eight

1 Quoted in Eric Sams: The Real Shakespeare, page 163.

2 ibid., page 66.

3 ibid., page 67.

4 ibid.

Chapter Twenty-nine

1 The most notable defender is Eric Sams, in Shakespeare’s Lost Play: Edmund Ironside.

2 I am indebted for these observations to Eric Sams.

3 Quoted in Charles Praetorius (ed.): The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England, page xvi.

Chapter Thirty

1 Quoted in Bate (ed.): The Romantics on Shakespeare, page 543.

Chapter Thirty-one

1 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems, Volume Two, page 305.

2 Quoted in E.A.J. Honigmann (ed.): King John, pages xlviii-xlix (London, 1954).

Chapter Thirty-two

1 Quoted in Fripp: Shakespeare: Man and Artist, Volume One, page 306.

2 ibid., page 298.

3 ibid.

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.

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.

Chapter Ninety-one

1 Quoted in Duncan-Jones: Ungentle Shakespeare, page 309.

2 Quoted in Schoenbaum: Shakespeare’s Lives, page 182.

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