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References
- ↑ Edwin Nunzeger, A Dictionary of Actors and of Others Associated with the Public Representation of Plays in England Before 1642, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1929; pp. 3-4.
- ↑ Allan H. Stevenson, "James Shirley and the Actors of the First Irish Theatre," Modern Philology, Vol. 40 No. 2 (November 1942), pp. 147-60.
- ↑ Andrew Gurr, The Shakespeare Company 1594–1642, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004; pp. 203, 217.
- ↑ Nunzeger, p. 3.
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