1. John Dryden, ‘Preface to Ovid’s Epistles’ (1680), in Essays of John Dryden, ed. W.P. Ker (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926), 1:236.
2. See Nancy K. Miller “I’s” in Drag: The Sex of Recollection’, Eighteenth Century 22 (1981): 47–57, and Elizabeth D. Harvey, Ventriloquized Voices: Feminist Theory and English Renaissance Texts (London: Routledge, 1992).
3. See Harvey, p. 32, and Luce Irigaray, ‘The Power of Discourse’ in This Sex Which is Not One, trans. Catherine Porter (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985), pp. 68–85, esp. p. 76.
4. See Gillian Beer, ‘“Our unnatural No-voice”: The Heroic Epistle, Pope, and Women’s Gothic’, YES 12 (1982): 125–51, especially p. 134, where she suggests that these texts envisage a dual readership, the addressee and the audience.
5. T.W. Baldwin, William Shakspere’s Small Latine & Lesse Greeke (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1944), 2 vols, I: 120.