Peter Ackroyd - Shakespeare

Chapter Eighty-two

1 Quoted in Irwin Smith: Shakespeare’s Blackfriars Playhouse , pages 247-8.

2 Quoted in Beckerman: Shakespeare at the Globe , page xii.

3 Quoted in Honan: Shakespeare: A Life , page 346.

4 Quoted in Bate (ed.): The Romantics on Shakespeare , pages 282-3.

Chapter Eighty-three

1 Quoted in Philip Brockbank (ed.): Coriolanus , Arden edition (London, 1976), page 25.

2 Quoted in Bate (ed.): The Romantics on Shakespeare , page 247.

3 Quoted in Mutschmann and Wentersdorf: Shakespeare and Catholicism , page 103.

4 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems , Volume Two, page 255.

Chapter Eighty-four

1 Quoted in Southworth: Shakespeare the Player , page 245.

2 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems , Volume Two, page 115.

3 Spurgeon: Shakespeare’s Imagery , page 296.

4 Quoted in Katherine Duncan-Jones (ed.): Shakespeare’s Sonnets , Arden edition (London, 1997), page 35. I am indebted generally to Professor Duncan-Jones’s introduction to this volume.

5 ibid., page 36.

6 ibid., page 49.

7 Quoted in Bate (ed.): The Romantics on Shakespeare , page 301.

Chapter Eighty-five

1 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems , Volume Two, page 337.

2 ibid., page 338.

3 ibid., page 341.

4 Quoted in Honigmann: Shakespeare’s Impact on His Contemporaries , page 141.

5 ibid., page 143.

6 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems , Volume Two, page 342.

Chapter Eighty-six

1 Court transcript from Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems , Volume Two, pages 90-5.

Chapter Eighty-seven

1 Quoted in F.T. Prince (ed.): The Poems , Arden edition (London, 1960), page xxii.

2 Quoted in Honigmann: Shakespeare’s Impact on His Contemporaries , page 100.

3 ibid.

4 Quoted in Schoenbaum: Shakespeare: A Documentary Life , page 224.

5 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems , Volume Two, page 166.

6 Quoted in Richard Wilson: Secret Shakespeare , page 260.

7 ibid., pages 166-7.

8 ibid., page 260.

9 ibid., page 206.

10 Quoted in Kay: Shakespeare: His Life, Work and Era , page 328.

11 Quoted in John Payne Collier: The Works of William Shakespeare (London, 1858), page ccxliv.

Chapter Eighty-eight

1 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems , Volume Two, page 344.

2 Quoted in Peter Levi: The Life and Times of William Shakespeare , page 330.

3 Quoted in Stanley Wells: Shakespeare: A Dramatic Life , page 375.

4 Quoted in Bate (ed.): The Romantics on Shakespeare , page 556.

5 ibid., page 557.

Chapter Eighty-nine

1 Quoted in Schoenbaum: Shakespeare: A Documentary Life , page 230.

2 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems , Volume Two, page 268.

3 ibid.

4 Quoted in Schoenbaum: Shakespeare: A Documentary Life , page 230.

5 Quoted in Mark Eccles: Shakespeare in Warwickshire , page 133.

6 Quoted in Schoenbaum: Shakespeare: A Documentary Life , page 231.

7 ibid.

Chapter Ninety

1 Quoted in Fripp: Shakespeare: Man and Artist , Volume Two, page 816.

2 Quoted in Duncan-Jones: Ungentle Shakespeare , page 259.

3 See Halliwell-Phillips: Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare , page 391.

4 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems , Volume Two, page 250.

5 Quoted in C.I. Elton: William Shakespeare: His Family and Friends , page 306.

6 Lucy Gent: Albion’s Classicism (London, 1995), page 325.

7 Quoted in Schoenbaum: Shakespeare: A Documentary Life , pages 249-50.

8 ibid., page 246.

9 Quoted in Schoenbaum: Shakespeare’s Lives , page 78.

Chapter Ninety-one

1 Quoted in Duncan-Jones: Ungentle Shakespeare , page 309.

2 Quoted in Schoenbaum: Shakespeare’s Lives , page 182.

I came to this study as a Shakespearian enthusiast rather than expert, and my debt to previous scholarship is as obvious as it is profound. Of the most recent biographies, I have found these most illuminating: Katherine Duncan-Jones’s Ungentle Shakespeare, Stephen Greenblatt’s Will in the World, Anthony Holden’s William Shakespeare, Park Honan’s Shakespeare: A Life, Eric Sams’s The Real Shakespeare, Stanley Wells’s Shakespeare: A Dramatic Life, Richard Wilson’s Will Power and Secret Shakespeare, and Michael Wood’s In Search of Shakespeare. To all these scholars and biographers I extend my thanks, as well as to those whose books are to be found in the following bibliography.

Adams, J.Q., A Life of William Shakespeare (London, 1923)

Akrigg, G.P.V., Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton (London, 1968)

Anon., Tarleton’s Jests (London, 1844)

Archer, I., The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London (Cambridge, 1991)

Armin, R., The Italian Taylor and His Boy (London, 1609)

Armin, R., Nest of Ninnies (London, 1842)

Armstrong, E.A., Shakespeare’s Imagination (London, 1946)

Baines, R.J., Thomas Heywood (Boston, 1984)

Baker, O., In Shakespeare’s Warwickshire (London, 1937)

Baldwin, T.W., The Organisation and Personnel of the Shakespearean Company (Princeton, 1927)

Baldwin, T.W., William Shakespeare Adapts a Hanging (Princeton, 1931)

Baldwin, T.W., William Shakespeare’s Petty School (Urbana, 1943)

Baldwin, T.W., William Shakespeare’s Small Latine and Lesse Greeke (Urbana, 1944)

Baldwin, T.W., William Shakespeare’s Five Act Structure (Urbana, 1947)

Barber, C.L. and Wheller, R.P., The Whole Journey: Shakespeare’s Power of Development (Berkeley, 1981)

Barish, J., The Antithetical Prejudice (London, 1981)

Barroll, L., Politics, Plague and Shakespeare’s Theatre (London, 1991)

Barton, J., Playing Shakespeare (London, 1984)

Baskerville, C.S., The Elizabethan Jig and Related Song Drama (Chicago, 1929)

Bate, Jonathan (ed.), The Romantics on Shakespeare (London, 1992)

Bate, Jonathan, Shakespeare and Ovid (Oxford, 1993)

Bate, Jonathan, The Genius of Shakespeare (Basingstoke and London, 1997)

Bayley, J., Shakespeare and Tragedy (London, 1981)

Bayne, Rev. R., Lesser Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists (London, 1910)

Bearman, R. (ed.), The History of an English Borough: Stratford-upon-Avon (Stroud, 1997)

Beckerman, Bernard, Shakespeare at the Globe: 1599–1609 (New York, 1962)

Bednatz, J.P., Shakespeare and the Poets’ War (New York, 2001)

Bentley, G.E., Shakespeare: A Biographical Handbook (New Haven, 1961)

Bevington, D., From “Mankind” to Marlowe (Cambridge, 1962)

Bevington, D., Shakespeare (Oxford, 2002)

Binns, J.W., Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (Leeds, 1990)

Bloom, Harold, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (London, 1999)

Bloom, J.H., Folk-Lore, Old Customs and Superstitions in Shakespeare’s Land (London, 1930)