Suggested Sources for The Faithful Friends(ca 1613-1620)

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Notes

1 All the references to The Faithful Friends are to Act, Scene and page numbers and are abbreviated as FF.

2 All the references to Plautus’ Miles Gloriosus are to Act and line numbers and are abbreviated as MG.

3 It should be noted that the rendition of the trickster Plautine servant character is “reversed” in Peele’s play where Booby Corebus is portrayed as a naïve and subservient servant (Öğütcü 320).

4 All the references to Peele’s The Old Wives Tale are to line numbers and are abbreviated as OWT.

5 All the references to Cervantes’ Don Quixote are to page numbers and are abbreviated as DQ.

6 I would like to acknowledge Grace Ioppolo and Will Tosh for their thought-provoking introductory lectures about playtexts and themes like friendship and favouritism prior to the “Read not Dead” performance of The Faithful Friends on the 19th of April 2015 as part of the Halved Heart: Shakespeare and Friendship Conference organized by Shakespeare’s Globe and held from the 17th to the 19th of April 2015.