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- ↑ E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage, 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923; Vol. 2, p. 303.
- ↑ F. E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964, Baltimore, Penguin, 1964; pp. 60, 448-9.
- ↑ G. E. Bentley, "Records of Players in the Parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate," Papers of the Modern language Association Vol. 44 No. 3 (September 1929), pp. 789–826; see p. 794.
- ↑ T. W. Baldwin, Organisation and Personnel of the Shakespearean Company, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1927.