by Shakespeare
7 Quoted in Halliwell-Phillips, Volume Two, pages 355-6.
8 ibid., page 363.
9 ibid.
10 Quoted in Schoenbaum: Shakespeare: A Documentary Life, page 106.
11 Christine Eccles: The Rose Theatre, page 94.
12 Quoted in P. Whitfield White: Theatre and Reformation, page 49.
13 ibid., page 51.
Chapter Twenty-six
1 E.J.L. Scott (ed.): Letter Book of Gabriel Harvey (London, 1884), page 67.
2 Quoted in G.K. Hunter: John Lyly: The Humanist as Courtier, page 87.
3 Quoted in Charles Nicholl: A Cup of News: The Life of Thomas Nashe, page 61.
4 Quoted in F.S. Boas: Christopher Marlowe, page 241.
5 Quoted in Nicholl: The Reckoning, page 242.
6 ibid., page 474.
Chapter Twenty-seven
1 Quoted in G.L. Hosking: The Life and Times of Edward Alleyn, page 36.
2 See E.A.J. Honigmann: Shakespeare: The “Lost Years,” page 109.
3 E.B. Everitt: The Young Shakespeare, page 61.
Chapter Twenty-eight
1 Quoted in Eric Sams: The Real Shakespeare, page 163.
2 ibid., page 66.
3 ibid., page 67.
4 ibid.
Chapter Twenty-nine
1 The most notable defender is Eric Sams, in Shakespeare’s Lost Play: Edmund Ironside.
2 I am indebted for these observations to Eric Sams.
3 Quoted in Charles Praetorius (ed.): The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England, page xvi.
Chapter Thirty
1 Quoted in Bate (ed.): The Romantics on Shakespeare, page 543.
Chapter Thirty-one
1 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems, Volume Two, page 305.
2 Quoted in E.A.J. Honigmann (ed.): King John, pages xlviii-xlix (London, 1954).
Chapter Thirty-two
1 Quoted in Fripp: Shakespeare: Man and Artist, Volume One, page 306.
2 ibid., page 298.
3 ibid.
4 Quoted in David George: “Shakespeare and Pembroke’s Men,” page 312.
Chapter Thirty-three
1 Quoted in George: “Shakespeare and Pembroke’s Men,” page 307.
2 Quoted in Gross (ed.): After Shakespeare, page 23.
3 Quoted in Bate (ed.): The Romantics on Shakespeare, page 279.
Chapter Thirty-four
1 Quoted in Fripp: Shakespeare: Man and Artist, Volume Two, page 831.
2 Quoted in Nungezer: A Dictionary of Actors, page 78.
3 ibid., page 72.
4 Quoted in C.T. Onions and S. Lee (eds): Shakespeare’s England, Volume One, page 301.
5 ibid., page 304.
Chapter Thirty-five
1 Quoted in Fripp: Shakespeare: Man and Artist, Volume One, page 347.
2 Quoted in A. Freeman: Thomas Kyd, page 25.
3 The best analysis of the whole episode is to be found in Charles Nicholl’s masterly The Reckoning.
4 Quoted in Fripp: Shakespeare: Man and Artist, Volume One, page 369.
5 Quoted in G.P.V Akrigg: Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton, page 182.
6 Quoted in C.C. Stopes: The Life of Henry, 3rd Earl of Southampton, page 56.
7 Quoted in Akrigg, Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton, page 197.
8 ibid.
9 Quoted in Drake: Shakespeare and His Times, Volume Two, page 12.
Chapter Thirty-six
1 Richard Wilson: Secret Shakespeare, page 134.
2 Quoted in F. Yates: John Florio, page 127.
3 See in particular Stewart Trotter: Love’s Labour’s Found.
4 Translation by H.T. Lowe-Parker.
5 ibid.
Chapter Thirty-eight
1 Quoted in Fripp: Shakespeare: Man and Artist, Volume One, page 207.
2 Quoted in Nungezer: A Dictionary of Actors, page 219.
3 Quoted in M.C. Bradbrook: The Rise of the Common Player, page 72.
4 Quoted in Irwin Smith: Shakespeare’s Blackfriars Playhouse, page 258.
Chapter Thirty-nine
1 Quoted in M. Hattaway: Elizabethan Popular Theatre, page 72.
2 Quoted in Joseph: Elizabethan Acting, page 149.
3 Quoted in Fripp: Shakespeare: Man and Artist, Volume One, page214.
4 ibid.
5 Quoted by Daniel Seltzer: “Elizabethan Acting in Othello,” Shakespeare Quarterly, 10 (1959).
6 Quoted in M. White: Renaissance Drama in Action, page 59.
7 Quoted in Joseph: Elizabethan Acting, page 17.
Chapter Forty
1 Quoted in Joseph: Elizabethan Acting, page 9.
2 Quoted in P. Thomson: Shakespeare’s Theatre, page 110.
3 Fynes Moryson: Itinerary (London, 1617), page 476.
4 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems, Volume Two, page 278.
5 John Southworth: Shakespeare the Player, page 173.
6 Quoted in J.B. Matthews: Molière: His Life and Works, page 39.
7 Quoted in Shakespeare Survey, 17, page 197.
8 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems, Volume One, page 84.
9 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems, Volume Two, page 262.
10 ibid., page 190.
11 Quoted in Michael Wood: In Search of Shakespeare, page 146.
12 Quoted in Chambers: Shakespeare: Facts and Problems, Volume Two, page 191.
Chapter Forty-one
1 Quoted in Gross (ed.): After Shakespeare, page 24.
2 Quoted in Schoenbaum: Shakespeare: A Documentary Life, page 133.
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.
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.