1. C. A. Sainte-Beuve, ‘Anciens poètes français: Guillaume de Saluste, seigneur du Bartas’, Revue des deux mondes, 4th ser., 29 (1842), 549–75 (550).
2. J. Dryden, ‘Of Dramatic Poesy’ and Other Critical Essays, ed. G. Watson, 2 vols (London, 1962), II, 277.
3. A. L. Prescott, ‘Du Bartas and Renaissance Britain: An Update’, Oeuvres et critiques, 29 (2004), 27–38; her earlier ‘The Reception of Du Bartas in England’, Studies in the Renaissance, 15 (1968), 144–73 (164) notes that contemporary English readers do not make much of his Protestantism.
4. Ben Jonson, ed. I. Donaldson (Oxford, 1985), 595, 275–6.
5. Details of the French publication are given in La Sepmaine, ed. Y. Bellenger, 2 vols (Paris, 1981), I, lvii—lx; La Seconde Semaine, ed. Y. Bellenger and others, 2 vols (Paris, 1991), I, xx—xxiii; Les Suittes de la Seconde Semaine, ed. Y. Bellenger (Paris, 1994), iii—viii. All quotations from Du Bartas are from these editions. An account of critical material relating to the publication and reception of Du Bartas is given in Y. Bellenger and J.-C. Ternaux, Bibliographie des écrivains français: Du Bartas (Paris, 1998).