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- ↑ Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith, eds. The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama, Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1978; p. 101.
- ↑ Colin Gibson, ed., The Selected Plays of Philip Massinger, Cambridge, Camdribge University Press, 1978; p. xi.
- ↑ Gibson, pp. 3–4.
- ↑ DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks , ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser, #710. Created 2007. Accessed 18 April 2021.
- ↑ Ira Clark, Professional Playwrights: Massinger, Ford, Shirley & Brome, Lexington, KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1992; p. 36.
- ↑ Gibson, p. 386.
- ↑ Gibson, p. 3.
- ↑ M. J. Thorssen, "Masssinger's Use of Othello in The Duke of Milan," SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, Vol. 19 No. 2 (Spring, 1979), pp. 313–26.
- ↑ Tanya Pollard, Drugs and Theatre in Early Modern England, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005; pp. 21, 82, 101–2.