[1068]. Ticknor, Spanish Literature, I. 232 f.
[1069]. Second Part, Chap. XX.
[1070]. Malone’s Shakspere, 1821, III. 131.
[1071]. Tarlton’s Jests ... ed. J. O. Halliwell, London, 1844, pp. xviii f. (Shakspere Society). “As Antipater Sidonius,” says the comparative Meres, “was famous for extemporall verse in Greeke ... so was our Tarleton.”
[1072]. See Bolte, Die Singspiele der englischen Komödianten und ihrer Nachfolger, Hamburg u. Leipzig, 1893, pp. 50 ff. He prints parallel copies of “Singing Simpkin” and the German “Pickelhering in der Kiste.”
[1073]. “Passages were often left for the extempore declamation of the actors. Sometimes the whole conduct of the piece depended on their powers of improvisation.” Symonds, Shakspere’s Predecessors, p. 66.
[1074]. Vorlesungen über Aesthetik, pp. 84 f.
[1075]. Ed. Grosart, V. 200.
[1076]. Hazlitt-Dodsley, V. 149, 151.
[1077]. As, for example, Schwab takes it: Das Schauspiel im Schauspiel, Wien u. Leipzig, 1896, p. 32.