Shakespeare, page 58
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.
