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- ↑ Psychological Myth as Tragedy: Nathaniel Lee's "Lucius Junius Brutus". Huntington Library Quarterly
- ↑ Terry Trainor. Bedlam. St. Mary of Bethlehem
- ↑ Tice L. Miller; Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - page: 51