³⁹ On antitheatricalists’ charges of idolatry, see Michael O’Connell, The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Early Modern England (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000), esp. Ch. 1, ‘Theater and the Devil’s Teats’.

⁴⁰ O’Connell considers several examples of playwrights’ conflicted responses to iconoclasm in Ch. 5 of The Idolatrous Eye, entitled ‘“Let the Audience Look to Their Eyes”: Jonson and Shakespeare’, though he does not linger long on Falstaff’s resurrection.

⁴¹ Annabel Patterson, ‘Sir John Oldcastle as Symbol of Reformation Historiography’, in Donna B. Hamilton and Richard Strier, eds, Religion, Literature and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540–1688 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996), 7. For an earlier and more widely-ranging study of sources for the Oldcastle myth, see Alice-Lyle Scoufos, Shakespeare’s Typological Satire: A Study of the Falstaff-Oldcastle Problem (Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 1979), 44–69.