1. For the Baltimore soldier, see Edward Pechter, Othello and Interpretive Traditions (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999), p. 12
2. Rymer is quoted frequently; see, for instance Lynda E. Boose, ‘Othello’s Handkerchief: “The Recognizance and Pledge of Love”’, English Literary Renaissance, 5 (1975), p. 360.
3. A. C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on ‘Hamlet’, ‘Othello’, ‘King Lear’, ‘Macbeth’, 2nd edn. (1905; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1967), pp. 176, 185.
4. Juliet Dusinberre, Shakespeare and the Nature of Women (London: Macmillan, 1975).
5. Marvin Rosenberg, The Masks of ‘Othello’: The Search for the Identity of Othello, Iago, and Desdemona by Three Centuries of Actors and Critics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961), pp. 6, 7.