1. On the play’s relationship to the Civil War see Alison Findlay, “Upon the World’s Stage: The Civil War and Interregnum.” Women and Dramatic Production 1570–1700, 68–93 and Kate Chedgzoy, Women’s Writing in the British Atlantic World: Memory, Place, and History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007): 135–43.
2. Jane’s poetry is preserved in Beinecke Library Osborn MS b. 223, which includes poetry from the Bodleian Library manuscript and the masque, A Pastorall. Other important manuscript sources related to the Cavendish sisters include: British Library MS Add. 70499 (family correspondence); British Library MS Egerton 607 (Elizabeth’s prayers and meditations); Huntington Library MS EL 8374, 8376, 8377; University of Nottingham MSS Portland Collection PwV 25. On MS Egerton 607 see Betty Travitsky, “His Wife’s Prayers and Meditations: MS Egerton 607” in The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon ed. Anne M. Haselkorn and Betty S. Travitsky (Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1990): 241–62
3. and Marie-Louise Coolahan, “The Presentation Volume of Jane Cavendish’s Poetry: Yale University Beinecke Library Osborn MS b. 223” Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Poetry ed. Jill Seal Millman and Gillian Wright (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005): 87–96.
4. On the play’s relationship to domestic space in relationship to fantasy, see Catherine Burroughs, “‘Hymen’s Monkey Love’: The Concealed Fancies and Female Sexual Initiation” Theatre Journal 51.1 (1999): 21–31, and, on the idea of performance at home, Findlay, Playing Spaces in Early Women’s Drama, 44–53 and “‘She Gave You the Civility of the House’: Household Performance in The Concealed Fancies” in Readings in Renaissance Drama, ed. S.P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies (London: Routledge, 1998), 259–70.
5. The manuscript, Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poet. 16, was copied by Cavendish’s secretary, John Rolleston. It contains, along with A Pastorall, and The Concealed Fancies, a number of poems by Jane and Elizabeth. The play was first published by Nathan Comfort Starr, “The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley” PMLA 46 (1931): 802–38.