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References
- ↑ Helen Cooper, "Jacobean Chaucer", Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance ed. Theresa M. Krier, Gainesville, Florida, University Press of Florida, 1998; pp. 191–2.
- ↑ 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. 50.
- ↑ Logan and Smith, pp. 50 and 73.
- ↑ Maxwell, Baldwin. Studies in Beaumont, Fletcher, and Massinger. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1939; p. 218.
- ↑ Logan and Smith, pp. 210–12.
- ↑ Elizabeth P. Stein, David Garrick, Dramatist. New York, Modern Language Association of America, 1937; p. 144.
- ↑ Nancy Cotton Pearse, John Fletcher's Chastity Plays: Mirrors of Modesty, Lewisburg, PA, Bucknell University Press, 1973.
- ↑ Felix Emanuel Schelling, Elizabethan Drama, 1558–1642. 2 Volumes, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1908; Vol. 2, pp. 209–10.