Although in some cases the author has worked from original documents, where possible publications in which they are more easily accessible are given as a source.
1. A.D. Wright and V.F. Stern,
In Search of Christopher Marlowe (Macdonald 1965), p. 137.
1. M.C. Bradbrook, The Rise of the Common Player (Cambridge University Press 1962), p. 52.
2. Ibid., pp. 56–67.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid. (quoting Stephen Gosson’s pamphlet of 1582), pp. 72–4.
5. Andrew Gurr, The Elizabethan Stage (Cambridge University Press 1980), pp. 113 ff.
6. Henslowe’s Diary, ed. R.A. Roakes and R.T. Rickert (Cambridge University Press 1961), pp. 274–5.
7. Bradbrook, Rise of the Common Player (quoting from Stockwood’s Sermon of 24 August 1587), p. 101.
8. Andrew Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London (Cambridge University Press 1987), pp. 206–7.
1. Seminar on Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, 2002.
2. Fair Maid of the West by Thomas Heywood (Methuen edn 1986), Act I Scene iii.
3. Robert Greene, A Groatsworth of Wit Bought with a Million of Repentance (pamphlet, Bodley Head Quartos, Vol. IV 1922).
4. Judith Cook, Dr Simon Forman (Chatto & Windus 2001), pp. 113–14.
5. Privy Council Registers, Elizabeth I (Public Record Office), vol. VI, P381b. This is published in many biographies of Marlowe, including Wraight and Stern, Marlowe, p. 88, along with a facsimile of the original.
6. S. Schoenbaum, Shakespeare, A Documentary Life (complete edn, Oxford University Press 1970), indexed under Katherine Hamlet.
7. Mark Eccles, Shakespeare in Warwickshire (University of Winsconsin Press 1963), p. 82.
1. Andrew Gurr, Shakespearean Stage, p. 88.
2. Henslowe’s Diary, pp. 38–40.
3. The Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. R.B. McKerrow, revised F.P. Wilson (Oxford University Press 1958), vol. III, pp. 311–12.
4. Bradbrook, Rise of the Common Player, pp. 74–5.
5. Ibid, quoting Northwood, pp. 69–70.
1. A Notable Discovery of Cosenage and The Art of Cony-Catching (Bodley Head Quartos, Vol. 5, 1922). There are many editions of these pamphlets.
2. A Gull’s Horn Book (facsimile edn, Scolar Press 1969).
3. Bradbrook, Rise of the Common Player, chapter note 13, p. 292.
1. A.L. Rowse, Christopher Marlowe (Macmillan 1964), pp. 154–5.
2. A.L. Rowse, William Shakespeare (Macmillan 1965), pp. 124–5.
3. S. Schoenbaum, Shakespeare, A Documentary Life (Compact edn, Oxford University Press 1977), p. 205.
4. Jonathan Bate, The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador 1997), pp. 24–5 (and almost all other biographies).
5. Wraight and Stern, Marlowe, quoting from Middlesex Sessions Roll 284, Elizabeth I 1589, pp. 117–23.
6. R.B. McKerrow, Works of Thomas Nashe, Vol. III, p. 168.
7. Wraight and Stern, Marlowe, pp. 120–2.
8. Henslowe’s Diary, pp. 276–7.
9. J. Cook, Dr Simon Forman, from Ashmol Folio 280.
10. F. Laroque, Shakespeare, Court and Playhouse (Thames & Hudson 1977), pp. 146–7, a useful small compendium of general information which includes the Chettle apology in full.
1. Wraight and Stern, Marlowe, pp. 151 ff.
2. Ibid., pp. 235–7, quoting Dr S.A. Tannenbaum, The Book of Sir Thomas More (Tenny Press, New York), Chap. VII, p. 59.
3. Ibid.
4. Henslowe’s Diary, p. 274.
5. Thomas Kyd, Touching Marlowe’s Monstrous Opinions, British Library Mss Harley 6848 143 ff., 1593, also Charles Nicholls, The Reckoning (Jonathan Cape 1992), pp. 45–6. Alexis was in the original verse in Virgil’s Ecloques.
6. J. Hotson, The Death of Christopher Marlowe (Harvard University Press 1925). This small, but vital, book gives details of the inquest and facsimile of part of the report of the proceedings. This was a breakthrough piece of research. For those interested there is a wealth of material, including F.S. Boas, Christopher Marlowe, A Critical Study (Oxford University Press 1940), Charles Norman, The Muses’ Darling (Falcon Press 1947) and Nicholls, The Reckoning, as above.
7. Nicholls, The Reckoning, pp. 17–18 and 325–9.
8. ‘The Baines Note’, British Library Harley Mss 6853, 1593 pp. 307–8ff. (copy) also Wraight and Stern, Marlowe, text of note p. 302, facsimile 308–9.
1. Both petitions in full in Henslowe’s Diary, pp. 284–5.
2. Depositions of Witnesses before the Commission Held at Cerne Abbas in Dorset on 21 March 1594 in answer to Interrogatories concerning Atheism and Apostasy, British Library Harley Mss 6848, pp. 183–90 ff.
3. John Aubrey, Brief Lives (Penguin English Library 1972), pp. 128–9.
4. Henslowe’s Diary, p. 286.
1. Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London (quoting Stubbs, The Anatomy of Abuses), p. 40.
2. Gurr, as above (quoting Henry Peacham, The Art of Living in London, 1622 edn), p. 6.
3. Bradbrook, Rise of the Common Player, p. 101.
4. Cook, Dr Simon Forman, pp. 309–11 (quoting from Book of Plaies and Notes Thereof Per Forman (Bodleian Library, Ashmol Folio 208).
5. Sonnet 74, Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London, p. 215.
6. Taylor’s Revenge, or the Rymer William Fennor firkt, ferrited and finely fecht over the Coals. Taylor’s papers are chaotic. The account is contained in The Works of John Taylor the Water Poet published in 1630. The copy used is in Gloucester Library, where it is pointed out that there are errors in pagination, missing pages and pages without numbers, of which this is one.
7. Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London (quoting Sir John Davies In Cosmum), p. 66.
1. Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London, p. 66.
2. Shakespeare in the Public Records, compiled by David Thomas (Her Majesty’s Stationery Office 1985), pp. 22–3, including facsimile of relevant document.
3. Rowse, William Shakespeare, pp. 279–80.
4. Henslowe’s Diary, p. 125.
5. There are many accounts of the Poets’ War on which this chapter is based including Anne Barton, Ben Jonson, Dramatist (Cambridge University Press 1984), all Chapter 3, and Marchette Chute, Ben Jonson of Westminster (Robert Hale 1954), pp. 109–11; also J. Cook, At the Sign of the Swan (Harrap 1986), pp. 92–4.
1. Quotations taken from the programme notes for the production of Middleton’s Women Beware Women by the RSC in 1970. The programme contains much useful information and a copy is available in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Library, Stratford-upon-Avon.
2. For argument, see Martin and White, Middleton and Tourneur (Macmillan 1992).
3. Barton, Ben Jonson, Dramatist, pp. 92–105.
4. Ben Jonson’s Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden (published by the Shakespeare Society, 1842).
5. Elizabethan and Jacobean Comedies edited by Brian Gibbons (New Mermaid edn, Ernest Benn Ltd 1984), appendix B.
1. We have the late Dr A.L. Rowse to thank for bringing Emilia into the light of day, albeit with much controversy since he was convinced she was the Dark Lady of the Sonnets. Information on her can be found in Ashmol Folios 226 and 354, Rowse, The Casebooks of Simon Forman (Picador 1976), pp. 100–28 and The Poems of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady (Macmillan 1978).
2. The Life and Death of Mistress Mary Frith, anonymous pamphlet published 1616. G. Sãlgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld
(Alan Sutton 1977), pp. 22–3 and 42–4, J. Cook, At the Sign of the Swan, pp. 151–5.
3. Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl, III, i.
1. Richard Huggett, The Curse of Macbeth (Huggett & Picton 1981), p. 144.
2. Aubrey, Brief Lives, p. 252.
3. Robert Speaight, Shakespeare, The Man and his Achievements (Dent 1977), p. 140 (and many other biographies).
4. J. Cook, Shakespeare’s Players (Harrap 1983), pp. 24–5.
5. M.C. Bradbrook, John Webster, Citizen and Dramatist (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1980), p. 41.
6. Ibid., p. 169.
7. Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London, appendix 2, pp. 226–7.
8. Schoenbaum, A Documentary Life (compact edition), p. 252.
9. Speaight, Shakespeare, the Man and his Achievements, p. 371 (and in virtually all biographies of Shakespeare).
1. Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London, appendix 2, p. 233.
2. Jonson’s Conversations with William Drummond.
3. Ibid.
4. Introduction to Thomas Middleton’s A Game At Chess, ed. J.W. Harper (New Mermaid edn), pp. xii–xxiv. Also White, Middleton and Tourneur, Chapter 9.
1. Aubrey, Brief Lives, p. 129.
2. Chute, Ben Jonson of Westminster, pp. 296–7.
3. Conversation with author.