[5] E. K. Chambers, William Shakespeare (Oxford, 1930), I; Alfred Harbage, Annals of the English Drama (London, 1940); William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of, ed. G. L. Kittredge (New York, 1936); James McManaway, “Recent Studies in Shakespeare’s Chronology,” Shakespeare Survey, III (1950), 22-33. In composing the list of plays performed by the Globe company, I have relied on Chambers, compared with Harbage and Kittredge, and checked against McManaway’s survey of studies in the chronological order of Shakespeare’s plays. Later theories on particular plays have been examined when relevant.
[6] Twelfth Night, ed. J. D. Wilson (Cambridge, 1930); Leslie Hotson, The First Night of Twelfth Night (New York, 1954).
[7] Percy Allen, “The Date of Hamlet,” T.L.S., January 2, 1937, 12; Chambers, William Shakespeare, I, p. 423; also “The Date of Hamlet,” Shakespearean Gleanings (London, 1944), pp. 68-75; Hamlet, ed. J. D. Wilson (Cambridge, 1936), 2nd ed.; H. D. Gray, “The Date of Hamlet;” J.E.G.P., XXX (1932), 51-61; L. Kirschbaum, “The Date of Hamlet,” S.P., XXXIV (1937), 168-175.
[8] Leslie Hotson, “Love’s Labour’s Won,” Shakespeare’s Sonnets Dated (New York, 1949), 37-56.
[9] A. Hart, “The Date of Othello,” T.L.S., October 10, 1935, 631; A. Cairncross, “A Reply to Hart,” T.L.S., October 24, 1935, 671; Richmond Noble, “A Reply to Hart,” T.L.S., December 14, 1935, 859; W. W. Greg, “The Date of King Lear and Shakespeare’s Use of Earlier Versions of the Story,” Library, XX (1940), 377-400.
[10] Chambers, William Shakespeare, I, p. 522.
[11] Macbeth, ed. J. D. Wilson (Cambridge, 1947), pp. xl-xlii. Wilson offers a fanciful argument to support his theory that the play was first performed before James in Edinburgh in 1601–1602. Kenneth Muir (Arden edition, 1951), p. xxvi, reviewing this argument, concludes, “It is reasonable to assume that the play was first performed in 1606, first at the Globe, and afterwards at Court—perhaps with a few minor alterations.”
[12] Leslie Hotson, Shakespeare vs. Shallow (Boston, 1931), pp. 111-122; P. Alexander, Shakespeare’s Life and Art (London, 1939), p. 125; William Green, Shakespeare’s Garter Play (unpublished dissertation, Columbia University, 1959), believes that Lord Hunsdon commissioned Shakespeare to write the play for performance on April 23, 1597. However, his explanation for the omission of the play’s title from Meres’ list is essentially hypothetical (pp. 249-251).
[13] Eight early plays of Shakespeare’s were actually revived during the Globe period, or supposedly revived according to the title pages of early editions. These plays were The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard II, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, and Titus Andronicus. Seven of the eight, all but the first, were printed in quartos. However, the texts of later editions were set up from the early editions without appreciable alterations. The Folio text of Dream does include some additions to the stage directions which may be illuminating but which do not change the theatrical elements. The Fourth Quarto (1608) of Richard II is the first edition to contain the abdication scene, and the Folio text of Titus Andronicus contains additional stage directions and a new scene. But these omissions in the early copies do not seem to be a result of staging conditions. There are two possible inferences. Either the later texts had no connection with the playhouse and therefore merely copied the earlier texts, or the productions did not change sufficiently over the years to cause variations in the texts. As a result I have decided to use these plays for occasional reference only.
[14] The dating of these and the succeeding plays is based upon Chambers, Elizabethan Stage, III, pp. 214, 293, 431, 513; IV, pp. 1, 8, 12, 27, 30, 42, 54.