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.