47 Marlowe’s translation of Lucan’s Pharsalia was first published in 1600. “Lucan’s First Booke Translated Line for Line by Chr. Marlow, at London, 1600.”
—Bullen’s Marlowe, vol. 3, p. 250.
48 “I hold then, that the object which Shakespere had in view in introducing this speech into Hamlet was to expose the weakness of his opponent Nash as a playwright.”
—Fleay, Macmillan’s Magazine, Dec., 1874.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] “Study of Shakespere,” by Swinburne, p. 52.
[2] Thomas Beard’s, the Puritan, Account of Marlowe’s Death in Bullen’s Marlowe, p. 63.
[3] The performance commenced at 3 o’clock.—Dyce’s Shakespere, vol. 1, p. 45.
[4] A nest of alleys near the bottom of St. Martin’s Lane, so called by Jonson.—Knight’s London, vol. 1, p. 369.
[5] Stow’s Survey, Ed. 1633, p. 470.