⁵⁵ See Everett, ‘Set upon a Golden Bough’: ‘In the year of Loves Martyr, Hamlet first held the stage, its author recognized as master of the public theatre, but still open to dismissal by well-born or university-trained writers. But Hamlet is a court tragedy. And in “The Phoenix and Turtle” the poet is perhaps making plain that he can equal or outdo the court makers of his time in their own mode’ (14). Also on the lyric and the tragedy, see Kermode, Shakespeare’s Language, ix.

⁵⁶ For Shakespeare as ‘supremely … a man of the theatre’, see The Oxford Shakespeare. William Shakespeare: The Complete Works: Compact Edition, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), xxxvi. For the most influential rebuttal, arguing that Shakespeare wrote his plays for both page and stage, see Lukas Erne, Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003).