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- ↑ Felix Emmanuel Schelling, Elizabethan Drama 1558–1642, 2 Volumes, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1908; Vol. 2, p. 337.
- ↑ Clarence Edward Andrews, Richard Brome: A Study of His Life and Works, New York, Henry Holt, 1913; p. 74.
- ↑ Schelling, Vol. 2 p. 337.
- ↑ Ira Clark, Professional Playwrights: Massinger, Ford, Shirley & Brome, University Press of Kentucky, 1992; pp. 15, 162.
- ↑ N. W. Bawcutt, ed., The Control and Censorship of Caroline Drama: The Records of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels 1623–73, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996; p. 205.
- ↑ Dieter Mehl, The Elizabethan Dumbshow: The History of a Dramatic Tradition, London, Routledge, 1982; p. 166.
- ↑ Andrews, pp. 78–9.