Peter Ackroyd - Shakespeare

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.