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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.