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References
- ↑ Francis James Child, English and Scottish Ballads, Vol. 17. Boston: The Riverside Press, 1880 (pg. 194)
- ↑ Richard Helgerson, Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early Modern Drama and Painting. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000 (pg. 51)
- ↑ F. Mowbray Velte, The Bourgeois Elements in the Dramas of Thomas Heywood. Mysore: Wesleyan Mission Press, 1924; reprint ed. New York: Haskell House, 1966 (pg. 23)
- ↑ Helgerson, 50
- ↑ Nicholas Rowe, The Life and Character of Jane Shore. Collected from our Best Historians, Chiefly from the Writings of Sir Thomas More; who was her Contemporary, and Personally Knew Her Tragedy. London: J. Morphew, 1714
- ↑ S. Ring, The Unfortunate Concubine; or, History of Jane Shore, Mistress to Edward IV. King of England; Showing How She Came to Be Concubine to the King; with an Account of Her Untimely Death. New York: W. Grattan, Printer, 1821