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References
- ↑ 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. 107.
- ↑ E. H. C. Oliphant, The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher: An Attempt to Determine Their Relative Shares and the Shares of Others, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1927; p. 237.
- ↑ Logan and Smith, pp. 72–3.
- ↑ Logan and Smith, pp. 72, 107.
- ↑ Oliphant, p. 238.
- ↑ Rupert Brooke, John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama. New York, John Lane, 1916; pp. 270–4.
- ↑ Arthur Colby Sprague, Beaumont and Fletcher on the Restoration Stage, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1926; p. 50.