[802] Northbrooke, 92; Munday, 144; Stubbes, 140.
[803] Gosson, S. A. 35; P. C. 215; Munday, 139.
[804] Northbrooke, 92; Stockwood, 23; Munday, 128; Field, Epistle.
[805] White, 46; Gosson, P. C. 215.
[806] Stubbes, 180, speaks of serious accidents at theatres due to panic at an earthquake, which must be that of 6 April 1580; but the account published at the time (cf. App. C, No. xxv) makes no reference to theatres, although it does, oddly enough, record that the only deaths were those of two children who were listening to a sermon in Christ Church, Newgate.
[807] The fall of the Paris Garden bear-baiting house on 13 January 1583 led John Field, in his A Godly Exhortation (1583) on that event, which is closely related to the anti-stage literature, to anticipate a similar fate for the theatres. The Puritans should have taken to heart the wise comment of Sir Thomas More on a similar occasion (cf. ch. xvi, s.v. Hope).
[808] Cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Marlowe, Dr. Faustus.
[809] Cf. App. C, Nos. iv, ix, x, xiv, xix. Something might be added from the prefaces of the Senecan translators (cf. ch. xxiii).
[810] Gosson, P. C. 201.
[811] Gosson, P. C. 203.