[7] Chambers, Elizabethan Stage, II, pp. 165-172, 177-180. From 1597 to 1603 nine men, Chettle, Day, Dekker, Drayton, Hathway, Haughton, Munday, Smith, and Wilson, furnished sixty-four of the eighty-eight plays which were finished and produced.
[8] These are: Phaethon, Earl of Godwin and His Three Sons I and II, King Arthur I, Black Bateman of the North, Madman’s Morris, Pierce of Winchester, Civil Wars of France I and II, Fount of New Fashions, Brute, The Spencers, The Page of Plymouth, Troy’s Revenge or Polyphemus, Cox of Collumpton, Fortunatus, atient Grissel, Seven Wise Masters, Strange News out of Poland, Cupid and Psyche, Six Yeomen of the West, Cardinal Wolsey, Thome Strowd III, The Conquest of the West Indies, Judas, Malcolm King of Scots, Love Parts Friendship, Jephthah.
[9] Henslowe, II, p. 112.
[10] F. G. Fleay, A Chronicle History of the London Stage, p. 117.
[11] Sir Henry Herbert, The Dramatic Records of Sir Henry Herbert, ed. J. Q. Adams (New Haven, 1917), pp. 66-67.
[12] The Virgin Martyr involved the addition of a scene, The Tragedy of Nero was allowed for printing, Come See a Wonder is listed for “a company of strangers,” and “the company at the Curtain” is in dispute.
[13] 1604–1605: 10 plays presented, 7 by Shakespeare; 1611–1612: 23 plays, 2 by Shakespeare, 5 by others, 16 unidentified; 1612–1613: 20 plays, 8 by Shakespeare, 12 by others; 1618: 3 plays, 2 by Shakespeare, 1 by another poet; 1633: 22 plays, 4 by Shakespeare, 18 by others; 1636: 19 plays, 3 by Shakespeare, 16 by others; 1638: 7 plays, 1 by Shakespeare, 6 by others; 1638–1639: 17 plays, 2 by Shakespeare, 15 by others. See Chambers, Elizabethan Stage, IV, pp. 171-183; Mary S. Steele, Plays and Masques at Court (New Haven, 1926).
[14] Chambers, Elizabethan Stage, IV, pp. 350-351. Periods during which plague forced the closing of the theaters between 1599 and 1608 were: March—December, 1603, c. October 5—December 15, 1605, July—December, 1606, July—November 19, 1607, August—December, 1608.
[15] Days without performances because of Lenten observance are not counted.
[16] Chambers, William Shakespeare, II, p. 332.