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- ↑ Dr Catie Gill (28 April 2013). Theatre and Culture in Early Modern England, 1650-1737: From Leviathan to Licensing Act. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-4094-7624-5.
- ↑ Antoine Louis PARIS (1843). Le Catalogue des Imprimés de la Bibliothèque de Reims, avec des notices sur les éditions rares, curieuses et singulières, des anecdotes littérares, et la provenance de chaque ouvrage (in French). p. 254.
- ↑ Richard Bentley (1874). Dr. Richard Bentley's Dissertations Upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides and Upon the Fables of Aesop. S. Calvary. p. 13.
- ↑ Darryll Grantley, "The Social Geography of London in Restoration Comedy", p.10. Accessed 26 April 2013.
- ↑ Eighteenth Century Women Playwrights. ISBN 978-1-57085-649-5.