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References

  1. Frederick Gard Fleay (1890). A Chronicle History of the London Stage, 1559-1642. B. Franklin. p. 124.
  2. Lucy Munro (November 3, 2005). Children of the Queen's Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory. Cambridge University Press. p. 175. ISBN   978-1-139-44605-1.
  3. Louis Montrose (June 1996). The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre. University of Chicago Press. p. 67. ISBN   978-0-226-53483-1.
  4. Edwards, Phillip, ed. (1985). Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press. p. 8. ISBN   0-521-29366-9. Any dating of Hamlet must be tentative. Scholars date its writing as between 1599 and 1601.
  5. Tommaso Campanella (March 30, 2011). Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella: A Bilingual Edition. University of Chicago Press. p. 7. ISBN   978-0-226-09205-8.
  6. Cyrus Hoy; Fredson Bowers; Thomas Dekker (October 30, 1980). Introductions, Notes and Commentaries to Texts in 'The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker'. Cambridge University Press. p. 181. ISBN   978-0-521-21786-6.
  7. Jo Eldridge Carney (2001). Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 271. ISBN   978-0-313-30574-0.