1. Sir D. Plunket Barton, Links Between Ireland and Shakespeare (Dublin: Talbot Press, 1925), p. 236.
2. Jacques Derrida, ‘Living On — Border Lines’, in Harold Bloom, Paul De Man, Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey Hartman and J. Hillis Miller (eds), Deconstruction and Criticism (New York: Seabury Press, 1979), p. 105. Emphasis Derrida’s.
3. Jeffrey Knapp, An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from ‘Utopia’ to ‘The Tempest’ (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), p. 220.
4. Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), p. 154. Greenblatt goes on to argue, though, that the connection between The Tempest and its alleged source text, Strachey’s account of the Bermuda wreck, is ‘a relation between joint-stock companies’; Shakespeare effects a ‘transfer of cultural practices’ from one domain to the other by means of ‘networks of resemblance’ (p. 148).
5. William Shakespeare, The Tempest, ed. Frank Kermode (London: Methuen, 1954), I:ii.229. All further references appear in the text.