[206b] Halliwell-Phillipps, ii. 77-80.
[208] Accounts of the Revels, ed. Peter Cunningham (Shakespeare Society), p. 177; Variorum Shakespeare, 1821, iii. 406.
[210a] It was reproduced by the Hakluyt Society to accompany The Voyages and Workes of John Davis the Navigator, ed. Captain A. H. Markham, 1880. Cf. Mr. Coote’s note on the New Map, lxxxv-xcv. A paper on the subject by Mr. Coote also appears in New Shakspere Society’s Transactions, 1877-9, pt. i. 88-100.
[210b] Diary, Camden Soc. p. 18; the Elizabethan Stage Society repeated the play on the same stage on February 10, 11 and 12, 1897.
[210c] Bandello’s Novelle, ii. 36.
[211a] First published in 1579; 2nd edit. 1595.
[211b] Hamlet, III. ii. 109-10.
[213a] On December 31, 1601, the Lords of the Council sent letters to the Lord Mayor of London and to the magistrates of Surrey and Middlesex expressing their surprise that no steps had yet been taken to limit the number of playhouses in accordance with ‘our order set down and prescribed about a year and a half since.’ But nothing followed, and no more was heard officially of the Council’s order until 1619, when the Corporation of London remarked on its practical abrogation at the same time as they directed the suppression (which was not carried out) of the Blackfriars Theatre. All the documents on this subject are printed from the Privy Council Register by Halliwell-Phillipps, 307-9.
[213b] The passage, act ii. sc. ii. 348-394, which deals in ample detail with the subject, only appears in the folio version of 1623. In the First Quarto a very curt reference is made to the misfortunes of the ‘tragedians of the city:’
‘Y’ faith, my lord, noveltie carries it away,
For the principal publike audience that
Came to them are turned to private playes
And to the humours of children.’