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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.