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References
- ↑ Robert Dodsley, ed., A Select Collection of Old Plays, London, 1744.
- ↑ Dale B. J. Randall, Winter Fruit: English Theatre 1642–1660, Lexington, KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1995; pp. 43-6.
- ↑ Thomas Alan King, The Gendering of Men, 1600–1750: The English Phallus, Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 2004; pp. 96-7.
- ↑ Paul Menzer, ed., Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars Stage, Selinsgrove, PA, Susquehanna University Press, 2006; pp. 54-5, 60.
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