Roaring Boys (30 page)

7
.   Nicholls,
The Reckoning
, pp. 17–18 and 325–9.

8
.   ‘The Baines Note’, British Library Harley Mss 6853, 1593 pp. 307–8ff. (copy) also Wraight and Stern,
Marlowe
, text of note p. 302, facsimile 308–9.

1
.   Both petitions in full in
Henslowe’s Diary
, pp. 284–5.

2
.   
Depositions of Witnesses before the Commission Held at Cerne Abbas in Dorset on 21 March 1594 in answer to Interrogatories concerning Atheism and Apostasy
, British Library Harley Mss 6848, pp. 183–90 ff.

3
.   John Aubrey,
Brief Lives
(Penguin English Library 1972), pp. 128–9.

4
.   
Henslowe’s Diary
, p. 286.

1
.   Gurr,
Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London
(quoting Stubbs,
The Anatomy of Abuses
), p. 40.

2
.   Gurr, as above (quoting Henry Peacham,
The Art of Living in London
, 1622 edn), p. 6.

3
.   Bradbrook,
Rise of the Common Player
, p. 101.

4
.   Cook,
Dr Simon Forman
, pp. 309–11 (quoting from
Book of Plaies and Notes Thereof Per Forman
(Bodleian Library, Ashmol Folio 208).

5
.   Sonnet 74, Gurr,
Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London
, p. 215.

6
.   
Taylor’s Revenge, or the Rymer William Fennor firkt, ferrited and finely fecht over the Coals
. Taylor’s papers are chaotic. The account is contained in
The Works of John Taylor the Water Poet
published in 1630. The copy used is in Gloucester Library, where it is pointed out that there are errors in pagination, missing pages and pages without numbers, of which this is one.

7
.   Gurr,
Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London
(quoting Sir John Davies
In Cosmum
), p. 66.

1
.   Gurr,
Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London
, p. 66.

2
.   
Shakespeare in the Public Records
, compiled by David Thomas (Her Majesty’s Stationery Office 1985), pp. 22–3, including facsimile of relevant document.

3
.   Rowse,
William Shakespeare
, pp. 279–80.

4
.   
Henslowe’s Diary
, p. 125.

5
.   There are many accounts of the Poets’ War on which this chapter is based including Anne Barton,
Ben Jonson, Dramatist
(Cambridge University Press 1984), all
Chapter 3
, and Marchette Chute,
Ben Jonson of Westminster
(Robert Hale 1954), pp. 109–11; also J. Cook,
At the Sign of the Swan
(Harrap 1986), pp. 92–4.

1
.   Quotations taken from the programme notes for the production of Middleton’s
Women Beware Women
by the RSC in 1970. The programme contains much useful information and a copy is available in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Library, Stratford-upon-Avon.

2
.   For argument, see Martin and White,
Middleton and Tourneur
(Macmillan 1992).

3
.   Barton,
Ben Jonson, Dramatist
, pp. 92–105.

4
.   
Ben Jonson’s Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
(published by the Shakespeare Society, 1842).

5
.   
Elizabethan and Jacobean Comedies
edited by Brian Gibbons (New Mermaid edn, Ernest Benn Ltd 1984), appendix B.

1
.   We have the late Dr A.L. Rowse to thank for bringing Emilia into the light of day, albeit with much controversy since he was convinced she was the Dark Lady of the Sonnets. Information on her can be found in
Ashmol Folios
226 and 354, Rowse,
The Casebooks of Simon Forman
(Picador 1976), pp. 100–28 and
The Poems of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady
(Macmillan 1978).

2
.   
The Life and Death of Mistress Mary Frith
, anonymous pamphlet published 1616. G. Sãlgãdo,
The Elizabethan Underworld
(Alan Sutton 1977), pp. 22–3 and 42–4, J. Cook,
At the Sign of the Swan
, pp. 151–5.

3
.   Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker,
The Roaring Girl
, III, i.

1
.   Richard Huggett,
The Curse of Macbeth
(Huggett & Picton 1981), p. 144.

2
.   Aubrey,
Brief Lives
, p. 252.

3
.   Robert Speaight,
Shakespeare, The Man and his Achievements
(Dent 1977), p. 140 (and many other biographies).

4
.   J. Cook,
Shakespeare’s Players
(Harrap 1983), pp. 24–5.

5
.   M.C. Bradbrook,
John Webster, Citizen and Dramatist
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1980), p. 41.

6
.   Ibid., p. 169.

7
.   Gurr,
Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London
, appendix 2, pp. 226–7.

8
.   Schoenbaum,
A Documentary Life
(compact edition), p. 252.

9
.   Speaight,
Shakespeare, the Man and his Achievements
, p. 371 (and in virtually all biographies of Shakespeare).

1
.   Gurr,
Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London
, appendix 2, p. 233.

2
.   Jonson’s
Conversations with William Drummond
.

3
.   Ibid.

4
.   Introduction to Thomas Middleton’s
A Game At Chess
, ed. J.W. Harper (New Mermaid edn), pp. xii–xxiv. Also White,
Middleton and Tourneur
,
Chapter 9
.

1
.   Aubrey, Brief Lives, p. 129.

2
.   Chute, Ben Jonson of Westminster, pp. 296–7.

3
.   Conversation with author.

Books are published in London unless otherwise stated.

Bodleian Library, Oxford, Ashmol Mss, Forman Papers ff. 208, 226, 280, 354

British Library, Harley Mss 6846 ff. 143 British Library, Harley Mss 6848 ff. 183–90

British Library, Harley Mss 6853 ff. 307/308 (The ‘Baines’ Note)

British Library, Roxburgh Collection,
Complaint and Lamentation of Mistress Arden of Faversham in Kent
, 1630, vol. III

Public Record Office, Privy Council Registers, Elizabeth I, vol. VI, p. 381

The Shakespeare Apocrypha
, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1908

The Shakespeare Documents
, vols I and II, ed. B. Roland Lewis, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1940

Shakespeare in the Public Records
, compiled by David Thomas, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1985

Shakespeare, A Documentary Life
, S. Shoenbaum, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Complete Edition 1970, ‘Compact Edition’ 1977

Ben Jonson’s Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
(Shakespeare Society 1842)

The Life and Death of Mistress Mary Frith
(anonymous pamphlet 1616)

Abbreviations
: OUP, Oxford University Press. CUP, Cambridge University Press.

Adams, J.Q.
The Dramatic Records of Sir Henry Tylney
, New Haven, USA, 1917

Aubrey, J.
Brief Lives
, Penguin English Library, 1972

Bakeless, J.
Christopher Marlowe
, Harvard University Press, 1942

Barton, A.
Ben Jonson, Dramatist
, Cambridge, CUP, 1984

Bate, J.
The Genius of Shakespeare
, Picador, 1997

Bentley, G.
The Jacobean and Caroline Stage
, Oxford, OUP, 1941

Black, J.B.
The Reign of Elizabeth
, Oxford, OUP, 1959

Boas, F.S.
Christopher Marlowe
, Oxford, OUP, 1940

Bowsher, J.
The Rose Theatre
, London Museum Press, 1998

Bradbrook, J.B.
The Rise of the Common Player
, Cambridge, CUP, 1962

——.
John Webster
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980

Chambers, E.K.
The Elizabethan Stage
, Oxford, OUP, 1923

——.
Shakespeare – A Study of Facts and Problems
, OUP, 1989

Chute, M.
Ben Jonson of Westminster
, Robert Hale, 1954

Cook, J.
Shakespeare’s Players
, Harrap, 1983

——.
At the Sign of the Swan
, Harrap, 1986

——.
Dr. Simon Forman – A Most Notorious Physician
, Chatto & Windus, 2001

Dekker, T.
A Gull’s Horn Book
, Scolar Press edn, 1969

Dunn, T.A.
Philip Massinger
, London, 1957

Eccles, M.
Shakespeare in Warwickshire
, University of Winsconsin Press, 1963

Ellis-Fermor, U.
The Jacobean Drama
, London, 1936

Foakes, R.A. and Rickert, T.R. (eds)
Henslowe’s Diary
, Cambridge, CUP, 1961

Freeman, A.
Thomas Kyd, Facts and Problems
, London, 1967

Fripp, E.
Shakespeare’s Stratford
, Oxford, OUP, 1928

Greene, R.
A Notable Discovery of Cosenage and A Groatsworth of Wit Bought with a Million of Repentance
, Bodley Head Quartos Vol. IV 1922, Vol. V 1932

Gurr, A.
The Shakespearean Stage 1574–1642
, Cambridge, CUP, 1980

——.
Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London
, Cambridge, CUP, 1987

Hosking, G.L.
The Life and Times of Edward Alleyn
, London, 1952

Hotson, J.L.
The Death of Christopher Marlowe
, Harvard University Press, 1926

Hugget, R.
The Curse of Macbeth
, Huggett & Picton, 1981

Jenkins, E.
Elizabeth the Great
, Gollancz, 1958

Knights, L.C.
Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson
, London, 1937

Laroque, F.
Shakespeare, Court, Crowd and Playhouse
, Thames & Hudson, 1977

McKerrow. R.B. (ed.)
The Works of Thomas Nashe
, vol. III. Oxford, OUP, 1958

Morris, B.
John Webster
, London, 1972

Mulryne, J.R.
Thomas Middleton
, London, 1979

Nicholl, C.
A Cup of News
, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984

——.
The Reckoning
, Picador, 1993

Nicoll, A.
Essays on Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama
, University of Missouri Press, 1962

Ordish, T.F.
Early Elizabethan Theatres
, White Lion Press, 1894, revised 1971

Porter, L. (general ed.)
The Revels History of Drama: Vol III 1576–1613
, Methuen 1975,
Vol. IV 1613–1660
, 1980

Prouty, C.T.
Life and Works of George Peele
, Yale University Press, 1952

Rowse, A.L.
The England of Elizabeth
, Macmillan, 1950

——.
Christopher Marlowe
, Macmillan, 1962

——.
William Shakespeare
, Macmillan, 1964

——.
The Casebooks of Simon Forman
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974

——.
The Poems of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady
, Macmillan, 1978

Rowse, A.L. and Harrison G.B.,
Queen Elizabeth and Her Subjects
, Allen & Unwin, 1935

Salgado, G.
The Elizabethan Underworld
, Stroud, Alan Sutton, 1971

Seccombe and Allen,
The Age of Shakespeare
, London, 1903

Speaight, R.
Shakespeare, the Man and his Achievements
, J.M. Dent, 1977

Wallis, L.B.
Beaumont and Fletcher
, Oxford, OUP, 1947

White, M.
Middleton and Tourneur
, Cambridge, CUP, 1992

Wraight, A.D. and Stern, V.C.
In Search of Christopher Marlowe
, Macdonald, 1965

Young, J.
Penguin Social History of Britain – The Sixteenth Century
, 1984

A Game At Chess
, Middleton, ed. J.W. New, Mermaids, Ernest Benn, 1966

Elizabethan and Jacobean Comedies
, ed. Brian Gibbons, Ernest Benn, 1984

Fair Maid of the West
, Heywood, ed. Keith Sturgess, Methuen, 1986

Four Tudor Comedies
, ed. William Tydeman, Penguin English Library, 1984

Six Plays by Contemporaries of Shakespeare
, ed. C.B. Wheeler, OUP, 1971

The Devil’s an Ass
, Jonson, Nick Hern Books, 1995

The Roaring Girl
, ed. Havelock Ellis, Mermaid Old Masters edition, 1890

The Witch of Edmonton
, Dekker, Ford, Rowley, Methuen, 1983

Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies
, ed. K. Sturgess, Penguin Classics, 1969

Three Jacobean Tragedies
, ed. G. Salgado, Penguin English Library, 1965