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- ↑ It is entered in the Register of the Stationer's Company as being received on 12 November 1584.
- ↑ Cf. Richard Hosley, 'The Authorship of "Fedele and Fortunio"', Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Aug., 1967), pp. 315-330. Published by: University of California Press. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/381695
- ↑ Fuller accounts of the plot can be found in pages 17 and 18 of Renato Oggero's paper, and in Wiggins and Richardson, British Drama - 1533-1642: A Catalogue, at pp. 325-327.
- ↑ Fidele and Fortunio, Act I, Scene III
- ↑ Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I