1. See S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1977)
2. See C. Perry (1997) The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation ofElizabethan Literary Practice (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press)
3. T. P. Rocher Jr. (ed.) (1978) Edmund Spensor, The Faerie Queere (Har-mondsworth: Penguin), Book II, Canto X, 28, p. 335
4. See, for instance, D. Callaghan (1989) Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: A Study of King Lear, Othello, the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities International Press)
5. See S. Greenblatt (2004) Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (New York: W. W. Norton)