3 Quoted in Charles Nicholclass="underline" A Cup of News: The Life of Thomas Nashe, page 61.
4 Quoted in F.S. Boas: Christopher Marlowe, page 241.
5 Quoted in Nicholclass="underline" 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.