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Notes
1. All references to Shakespeare are to The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. 5th ed. Ed. David Bevington. New York: Pearson Longman, 2004. Print.
2. In The Two Noble Kinsmen, one of the Morris dancers is named Maudline (3.[5].25), but she has no lines and apparently no thematic significance; and scholarly consensus is that that passage is by John Fletcher anyway (Bevington 1604–05; Cohen 3211).
3. J. L. Styan remarks, “It adds to his [Bertram's] disgrace if fair Maudlin is actually present on stage, but even if she is not, disaster will spring from the very idea of marrying her” (108).
4. Ryan (35) notes Maudlin's presence here but does not connect her to her apostolic aspect.
5. In Much Ado about Nothing, Leonato stages a mock wedding (5.1.273–291, 5.4.50–70) for, I think, a similar sacramental resonance. There are significant differences in plot and theme between Much Ado's mock wedding and All's Well's almost wedding.