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- ↑ Suzanne Gossett (April 21, 2011). Thomas Middleton in Context. Cambridge University Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-521-19054-1.
- ↑ Akihiro Yamada (April 28, 2017). Experiencing Drama in the English Renaissance: Readers and Audiences. Taylor & Francis. p. 160. ISBN 978-1-351-76446-9.
- ↑ Scholars date completion of these plays as between 1603 and 1606. Boyce, Charles (1990). Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare. New York: Roundtable Press.