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2. Thomas Nashe, Pierce Penilese, in The Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. R. B. McKerrow (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1904–1905), 1:212
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4. Stephen Gosson, Plays Confuted in Five Actions, in The English Drama and Stage under the Tudor and Stuart Princes, 1543–1664, ed. William C. Hazlitt (London: Whittingham and Wilkins, 1869), 202.
5. Leeds Barroll, Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare’s Theatre: The Stuart Years (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991), 172.