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.
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.