FOOTNOTES:
[1] “Study of Shakespere,” by Swinburne, p. 52.
[2] Thomas Beard’s, the Puritan, Account of Marlowe’s Death in Bullen’s Marlowe, p. 63.
[3] The performance commenced at 3 o’clock.—Dyce’s Shakespere, vol. 1, p. 45.
[4] A nest of alleys near the bottom of St. Martin’s Lane, so called by Jonson.—Knight’s London, vol. 1, p. 369.
[5] Stow’s Survey, Ed. 1633, p. 470.
[6] Dyce’s Shakespere, vol. 1, p. 40.
[7] Taine’s History of English Literature, Book II, chap. 2.
[8] Induction to Cynthia’s Revels. Ben Jonson.
[9] Dyce’s Shakespere, vol. 1, p. 40.
[10] See note 15.
[11] See note 15.
[12] Swinburne’s Study of Shakespere, p. 24.
[13] “He trod the stage with applause.”—Langbaine.
[14] See notes 18 to 24.
[15] Hallam and Lamb.
[16] See note 35.
[17] Dyce’s Marlowe, Bullen’s Marlowe.
[18] “Doubtless Bame was backed by some person or persons of power and position.”—Bullen’s Marlowe, Introduction, lxix.
[19] “The Atheist’s Tragedie,” vol. iii.—Bullen’s Marlowe.
[20] Jew of Malta, Act. I.
[21] Halliwell-Phillipp’s Outlines, 105.
[22] Bullen’s Marlowe, Introduction, 58.
[23] 14 Eliz. c. 5 (1572).
[24] Id.
[25] “The earliest legitimate theater south of the Thames; opened early in 1592”—Halliwell-Phillipp’s Outlines, p. 79.
[26] So held in the case of the Dean of Asaph as the law; but the doctrine was vigorously attacked by Erskine in his great speech on the “Rights on Juries.” See British Eloquence by Goodrich, pp. 655-683.
[27] Chamber’s Enc. Eng. Lit., vol 1, 176.
And hell itself breathes out contagion to this world.
—Hamlet, ii, 2.
“Now could I drink hot blood.”
—Hamlet iii, 2.
“That you may drink your fill and quaff in blood.”
—Edward II., iii, 2.