1. Quoted in René Wellek, ‘Bohemia in Early English Literature’, The Slavonic and East European Review, 21 (1942–3), Pt. 1, pp. 114–46, p. 121.
2. Steven Mullaney, ‘After the new historicism’, Alternative Shakespeares 2, ed. Terence Hawkes (London, 1996), pp. 17–37, pp. 26–7.
3. Ibid., p. 28.
4. For the importance of the sectarian tracts, see James Holstun, ‘Ranting at the New Historicism’, English Literary Renaissance, 19 (1989), 189–225; for subversive drama see Albert H. Tricomi, Anticourt Drama in England, 1603–1642 (Charlottesville, VA, 1989).
5. These criticisms are reviewed at length in Albert H. Tricomi’s Reading Tudor-Stuart Texts Through Cultural Historicism (Gainesville, FL, 1996), ch. 1.