Books are published in London unless otherwise stated.
Bodleian Library, Oxford, Ashmol Mss, Forman Papers ff. 208, 226, 280, 354
British Library, Harley Mss 6846 ff. 143 British Library, Harley Mss 6848 ff. 183–90
British Library, Harley Mss 6853 ff. 307/308 (The ‘Baines’ Note)
British Library, Roxburgh Collection, Complaint and Lamentation of Mistress Arden of Faversham in Kent, 1630, vol. III
Public Record Office, Privy Council Registers, Elizabeth I, vol. VI, p. 381
The Shakespeare Apocrypha, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1908
The Shakespeare Documents, vols I and II, ed. B. Roland Lewis, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1940
Shakespeare in the Public Records, compiled by David Thomas, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1985
Shakespeare, A Documentary Life, S. Shoenbaum, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Complete Edition 1970, ‘Compact Edition’ 1977
Ben Jonson’s Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden (Shakespeare Society 1842)
The Life and Death of Mistress Mary Frith (anonymous pamphlet 1616)
Abbreviations: OUP, Oxford University Press. CUP, Cambridge University Press.
Adams, J.Q. The Dramatic Records of Sir Henry Tylney, New Haven, USA, 1917
Aubrey, J. Brief Lives, Penguin English Library, 1972
Bakeless, J. Christopher Marlowe, Harvard University Press, 1942
Barton, A. Ben Jonson, Dramatist, Cambridge, CUP, 1984
Bate, J. The Genius of Shakespeare, Picador, 1997
Bentley, G. The Jacobean and Caroline Stage, Oxford, OUP, 1941
Black, J.B. The Reign of Elizabeth, Oxford, OUP, 1959
Boas, F.S. Christopher Marlowe, Oxford, OUP, 1940
Bowsher, J. The Rose Theatre, London Museum Press, 1998
Bradbrook, J.B. The Rise of the Common Player, Cambridge, CUP, 1962
——. John Webster, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980
Chambers, E.K. The Elizabethan Stage, Oxford, OUP, 1923
——. Shakespeare – A Study of Facts and Problems, OUP, 1989
Chute, M. Ben Jonson of Westminster, Robert Hale, 1954
Cook, J. Shakespeare’s Players, Harrap, 1983
——. At the Sign of the Swan, Harrap, 1986
——. Dr. Simon Forman – A Most Notorious Physician, Chatto & Windus, 2001
Dekker, T. A Gull’s Horn Book, Scolar Press edn, 1969
Dunn, T.A. Philip Massinger, London, 1957
Eccles, M. Shakespeare in Warwickshire, University of Winsconsin Press, 1963
Ellis-Fermor, U. The Jacobean Drama, London, 1936
Foakes, R.A. and Rickert, T.R. (eds) Henslowe’s Diary, Cambridge, CUP, 1961
Freeman, A. Thomas Kyd, Facts and Problems, London, 1967
Fripp, E. Shakespeare’s Stratford, Oxford, OUP, 1928
Greene, R. A Notable Discovery of Cosenage and A Groatsworth of Wit Bought with a Million of Repentance, Bodley Head Quartos Vol. IV 1922, Vol. V 1932
Gurr, A. The Shakespearean Stage 1574–1642, Cambridge, CUP, 1980
——. Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London, Cambridge, CUP, 1987
Hosking, G.L. The Life and Times of Edward Alleyn, London, 1952
Hotson, J.L. The Death of Christopher Marlowe, Harvard University Press, 1926
Hugget, R. The Curse of Macbeth, Huggett & Picton, 1981
Jenkins, E. Elizabeth the Great, Gollancz, 1958
Knights, L.C. Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson, London, 1937
Laroque, F. Shakespeare, Court, Crowd and Playhouse, Thames & Hudson, 1977
McKerrow. R.B. (ed.) The Works of Thomas Nashe, vol. III. Oxford, OUP, 1958
Morris, B. John Webster, London, 1972
Mulryne, J.R. Thomas Middleton, London, 1979
Nicholl, C. A Cup of News, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984
——. The Reckoning, Picador, 1993
Nicoll, A. Essays on Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama, University of Missouri Press, 1962
Ordish, T.F. Early Elizabethan Theatres, White Lion Press, 1894, revised 1971
Porter, L. (general ed.) The Revels History of Drama: Vol III 1576–1613, Methuen 1975, Vol. IV 1613–1660, 1980
Prouty, C.T. Life and Works of George Peele, Yale University Press, 1952
Rowse, A.L. The England of Elizabeth, Macmillan, 1950
——. Christopher Marlowe, Macmillan, 1962
——. William Shakespeare, Macmillan, 1964
——. The Casebooks of Simon Forman, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974
——. The Poems of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady, Macmillan, 1978
Rowse, A.L. and Harrison G.B., Queen Elizabeth and Her Subjects, Allen & Unwin, 1935
Salgado, G. The Elizabethan Underworld, Stroud, Alan Sutton, 1971
Seccombe and Allen, The Age of Shakespeare, London, 1903
Speaight, R. Shakespeare, the Man and his Achievements, J.M. Dent, 1977
Wallis, L.B. Beaumont and Fletcher, Oxford, OUP, 1947
White, M. Middleton and Tourneur, Cambridge, CUP, 1992
Wraight, A.D. and Stern, V.C. In Search of Christopher Marlowe, Macdonald, 1965
Young, J. Penguin Social History of Britain – The Sixteenth Century, 1984
A Game At Chess, Middleton, ed. J.W. New, Mermaids, Ernest Benn, 1966
Elizabethan and Jacobean Comedies, ed. Brian Gibbons, Ernest Benn, 1984
Fair Maid of the West, Heywood, ed. Keith Sturgess, Methuen, 1986
Four Tudor Comedies, ed. William Tydeman, Penguin English Library, 1984
Six Plays by Contemporaries of Shakespeare, ed. C.B. Wheeler, OUP, 1971
The Devil’s an Ass, Jonson, Nick Hern Books, 1995
The Roaring Girl, ed. Havelock Ellis, Mermaid Old Masters edition, 1890
The Witch of Edmonton, Dekker, Ford, Rowley, Methuen, 1983
Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies, ed. K. Sturgess, Penguin Classics, 1969
Three Jacobean Tragedies, ed. G. Salgado, Penguin English Library, 1965