1. Martin Butler, ‘Private and Occasional Drama’, in The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Drama, ed A. R. Braunmuller and M. Hattaway (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), p. 134,
2. and D. B. J. Randall, Jonson’s Gypsies Unmasked: Background and Theme of ‘The Gypsies Metamorphos’d’ (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975).
3. For example, M. Netzloff, ‘“Counterfeit Egyptians” and Imagined Borders: Jonson’s The Gypsies Metamorphosed’, English Literary History, 68 (2001), 763–93f.
4. Thomas Cogswell, ‘The People’s Love: The Duke of Buckingham and Popularity’, in Politics, Religion and Popularity in Early Stuart Britain: Early Stuart Essays in Honour of Conrad Russell, ed. Thomas Cogswell, Richard Cust, and Peter Lake (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 212, dates this change to 1624; Gypsies seems to prefigure and predate this strategy.
5. The Palatine crisis impinged on localities directly as first Elizabeth’s envoy, Achatius zu Dohna (April/May 1620), and then the Parliament sought fiscal support for the wars (1620/21). The Earl of Huntingdon’s speech in favour of rapid action because ‘the celerity of war canot stay the formality that soe great a Council as a Parliament will require’ illuminates how political information and activity operated beyond parliamentary periods: see Thomas Cogswell, Home Divisions: Aristocracy, The State and Provincial Conflict (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998), pp. 34–9.