NOTES
- Leslie Hotson, I William Shakespeare (London: Cape, 1937), 258.
- BHS, XXX (1953), 84.
- Paul Morgan, Shakespeare Survey, XVI (1963), 118.
- Short Title Catalogue, 3613. The inscribed copy of Lope is in the library of BaHiol College.
- Gustav Ungerer, A Spaniard in Elizabethan England (London: Tamesis, 1974–76, 2 vols, 11. 377 ff.
- Edward M. Wilson, The Listener (June 1952), 926.
- Book I.
- Yet I defend what I have written, though if I had striven for a stricter style The plays might have been better; but I know My faithful public would have run a mile; Their principles, alas, are so debased, My very lapses satisfy their taste.
- The White Devil, ed. John Russell Brown (London: Methuen, 1960), 3.
- Robert Garnier's Cornélie.
- Sonnets 110, 111.
- By an act of 1572, actors not servants of a nobleman were classed as rogues and vagabonds.
- Cf. A. Thaler, Shakespeare and Sir Philip Sidney (Boston: Harvard U.P., 1947).
- Jonson admits in his elegy that Shakespeare's art must enjoy part of the credit.
- Although Shakespeare knew the landlord of the Mermaid Tavern, Beaumont's description of the conversation there may refer to a somewhat later period. Hugh Holland and Jonson, who contributed eulogies to the First Folio, were known to be Mermaid regulars.
- See the Herford and Simpson edition of Jonson: I. 49, 79–83; II, 376–78; VIII, 583–84; X, 51–52.
- Thomas Fuller was too young to have been present at the wit-combats between Jonson and Shakespeare: he probably invented them from his knowledge of their writings.
- ‘We have scarce received a blot in his papers.’
- The Tempest, Epilogue 13.
- II. 1615 ff.
- The Tempest IV. i. 41.