1. Materializing Space 99. Erroneous conceptions that Robert Cecil performed the role of the hermit stem from the speculation of the notorious John Payne Collier, and are contradicted by the text itself (see John Payne Collier, The History of English Dramatic Poetry, 3 vols. [London: John Murray, 1831], 1: 285–8).
2. Collier’s error is repeated in Alan Young, Tudor and Jacobean Tournaments (London: Sheridan House, 1987), 174–5.
3. Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart, Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon (New York: Hill and Wang, 1999), 179–80.
4. On the history of Elizabeth’s visits to Theobalds, see Materializing Space 88–9 and E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage, 4 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923), 4: 81–8.
5. For Richard III’s pretended reluctance to assume the throne, see William Shakespeare, Richard III (New York: Signet, 1998), Act 3, scene 7.