1 Quoted in David Cressy: Birth, Marriage and Death, page 81.
2 Jeanne Jones: Family Life in Shakespeare’s England, page 93.
3 Robert Bearman (ed.): The History of an English Borough, page 92.
Chapter Two
1 Richard Wilson: Will Power: Essays on Shakespearian Authority, page 71.
2 ibid.
3 ibid.
Chapter Four
1 Caroline Spurgeon: Shakespeare’s Imagery, page 93.
2 ibid., page 98.
3 Jeanne Jones: Family Life in Shakespeare’s England, page 22.
4 ibid, page 33.
5 Keith Wrightson: English Society 1580-1680, page 149.
Chapter Five
1 Quoted in E.K. Chambers: William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems, Volume Two, page 247.
2 Quoted in Samuel Schoenbaum: Shakespeare’s Lives, page 5.
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.
