1. Edward Berry, ‘Twentieth-Century Shakespeare Criticism: The Histories’, in Stanley Wells (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), p. 255.
2. Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World, ed. C. A. Patrides (London: Macmillan, 1971), p. 80.
3. Quoted in Annabel Patterson, Censorship and Interpretation (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), p. 47.
4. Ivo Kamps, Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 2.
5. Paola Pugliatti, Shakespeare the Historian (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996), pp. 140–50.