These facts explain Wallace's discovery that Shakespeare at the time of his death owned a one-seventh interest in the second Blackfriars, a theater that had formerly been a rival to the Globe.]
[Footnote 17: Dr. Faustus, Scene 6.]
[Footnote 18: Tamburlaine, Act II., Scene 7.]
[Footnote 19: The Winter's Tale, Act IV., Scene 4.]
[Footnote 20: Tradition says that Shakespeare occupied the desk in the farthest corner.]
[Footnote 21: Greene's Groatsworth of Wit, Grosart's edition of
Greene's Works, Vol. XII., p. 144.]
[Footnote 22: The contract price for building the Fortune Theater was £440.]
[Footnote 23: Adapted from Furnivall.]
[Footnote 24: Entered one year before at Stationers' Hall.]
[Footnote 25: May be looked on as fairly certain.]