1. Edward Snow, Inside Bruegel: The Play of Images in ‘Children’s Games’ (New York: North Point Press, 1997), p. 18.
2. On theatre as childish, see David Pascoe, ‘Marston’s Childishness’, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 9 (1997), 92–111 (p. 102).
3. Ben Jonson, Timber; or, Discoveries, in Ben Jonson, ed. C. H. Herford, Percy Simpson and Evelyn Simpson, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925–52), VIII (1947), pp. 555–649 (p. 597).
4. For example, Richard Burbage is described as a ‘delightful Proteus’ in Richard Flecknoe, Love’s Kingdom, With a Short Treatise of the English Stage (London, 1664), pp. 91–2.
5. William Rankins, A Mirrour of Monsters (London, 1587), sig. B2.