Shakespeare

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.