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4
Shakespeare, Sonnet 73.

5
Strong, p. 134.

6
The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse
, ed. Emrys Jones, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991, p. 432.

7
Nashe (1958), II, pp. 245–6.

8
Jim Sharpe, ‘Social strain and social dislocation, 1585–1603’, in Guy, pp. 192–5.

9
Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
, II.i. 94–7, 111–14.

10
Sharpe, in Guy, p. 192.

11
Wrigley and Schofield, p. 469.

12
Ibid., p. 531.

13
Nashe (1958), III, p. 161.

14
For this and most plague details, see F.P. Wilson.

15
Ibid., p. 97.

16
Ibid., p. 37–9.

17
Nashe (1958) III, p. 160.

18
PRO Clerks of Assize Records, Home Circuit Indictments ASSI 40/4147 quoted by Sharpe in Guy, p. 200.

19
Joel Sumatra, ‘Gleanings form Local Criminal Court Records: Sedition amongst the “Inarticulate” in Elizabethan England’,
Journal of Social History
, 8 (Summer 1975), p. 65.

20
Sharpe, p. 198.

21
Ibid., p. 199.

22
Shakespeare, Sonnet 138.

23
Nashe (1958), p. 248.

24
Hughes, p. 86.

25
Northumberland Papers VI, no. 1, ff. 1–6, quoted by Hiram Morgan in Guy, p. 117.

24 Sex and the City

1
Jonson, (1981) I. i. 142.

2
See Partridge, and William C. Carroll, ‘Language and Sexuality in Shakespeare’, in Alexander and Wells, pp. 14–34.

3
Shakespeare,
Romeo and Juliet,
I.iii.70–2.

4
Shakespeare,
Troilus and Cressida,
V.ii.204.

5
Shakespeare, Sonnet, 144. ii. 12–14.

6
The Cambridge World History of Human Disease
, ed. Kenneth F. Kiple et. al., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 1027.

7
Shakespeare,
Romeo and Juliet
, II.iii.27.

8
Linnane, p. 13.

9
Nashe (1958), III, pp. 403–16.

10
Salgado, p. 187.

11
The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, Vol. II
, ed. Fredson Bowers, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, p. 279.

12
Smith, p. 48.

13
Borris, pp. 94–9.

14
A.N. Wilson,
Our Times
, London, Hutchinson, 2009, p. 188.

15
Hiram Morgan in Guy, p. 109.

16
Nicholl, pp. 423–4 and
passim
.

17
Nicholl’s word, ibid., p. 13.

18
Ibid., p. 14.

19
Ibid., p. 112.

20
Ibid., p. 408.

25 The Occult Philosophy

1
Yates (1966), p. 137.

2
Quoted Chambers II, p. 428.

3
Shakespeare,
Complete Works
, p. 24.

4
Hodges, p. 7. 

5
Quoted Yates (1964), p. 277.

6
Quoted ibid, pp. 229–30.

7
Ibid., p. 225.

8
Shakespeare,
King Lear
, I.ii.93–7.

9
Shakespeare,
The Merchant of Venice
V.i.60–70.

10
Agrippa,
De occulta philosophia
, II, 30, quoted Yates (1964), p. 263.

11
Ibid., p. 262.

12
Michael White, p. 124.

13
BL, Harley MS 6849, ff. 184r–190r.

14
Nicholls and Williams, ‘Sir Walter Raleigh’,
ODNB
, 45.

15
Walter Raleigh,
History of the World
, Preface. London, William Jaggard, 1621.

16
Spenser,
Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
, II. 310–15.

17
Ibid., 871–2.

18
‘Wasted’ just means ‘spent’ in sixteenth-century English, but it was beginning to acquire its modern meaning of spending time pointlessly.

26 My America

1
Aikin, I, p. 346.

2
P. B Bartlett,
The Poems of George Chapman
, New York, Modern Language Association of American, 1941, p. 165.

3
Ibid.

4
The Poems of Walter Raleigh
, ed. A.M.C. Latham, London, Muses Library, 1951, p. 122.

5
Mancall, p. 176.

6
Ibid., p. 177.

7
Ibid., p. 177.

8
Ibid., p. 221.

9
Ibid., p. 226. I have emended Mancall’s version.

10
Ibid., p. 238.

11
Ibid., p. 271.

12
‘Hakluyt Chronology’, I. 323–4, quoted ibid., p. 272. See Susan M. Kingsbury (ed.),
Records of the Virginia Company of London
, 4 vols, Washington, DC, 1906–35, 384, 326.

13
Donne’s Poetical Works
, I, 52, ed. Herbert Grierson, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1913.

27 Tyrone

1
Canny, ‘Hugh O’Neill’,
ODNB
, 41, p. 837.

2
G.A. Hayes-McCoy in Moody and others (eds), p. 123.

3
Court of King James I, p. 163, quoted Geoffrey Soden,
Godfrey Goodman, Bishop of Gloucester 1853–1656
, London, SPCK, 1953, p. 27.

4
Maisse, p. 10.

5
Ibid., p. 27.

6
Ibid., p. 23.

7
Soden, p. 55.

8
Maisse, p. 24.

9
Ibid., p. 25.

10
Ibid., p. 37.

11
Ibid., p. 26.

12
BL Lansdowne MS 102, f.10.

13
Read (1960), p. 545.

14
Ibid., p. 546.

15
Shakespeare, Sonnet 107.

16
Shakespeare, Sonnet 3.

17
Goodman, I, p. 147.

18
Loades, pp. 205–7.

19
Hammer, p. 283 and
passim
.

20
Ibid., p. 288.

21
Neale (1934), p. 353.

22
Spenser,
Poetical Works
.

23
Lacey, p. 240.

24
Lacey, p. 242.

28 Essex and the End

1
CSP Domestic, p. 468.

2
See Katherine Duncan-Jones and Henry Woudhuysen (eds),
Shakespeare’s Poems
, London, Arden Shakespeare, 2007, p. 104.

3
Nichols, III, p. 552.

4
Shakespeare,
Richard II
, III.iii.172–3.

5
Ibid., III.ii.175.

6
Jardine, I, p. 321.

7
Neale (1934), p. 377.

8
Maria Perry, p. 211.

9
Ibid.

10
Ibid., p 313.

29
Hamlet
: One Through Two

1
Procter, p. 124.

2
Shakespeare,
Hamlet
, II.ii.337.

3
Thompson and Taylor,
Hamlet
(Second Quarto), London, The Arden Shakespeare, 2006, p. 54.

4
Shakespeare,
Hamlet
, I.v.25.

5
Ibid.

6
Ibid.

7
Shakespeare,
Measure for Measure
, II.ii. 92–4.

8
Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
, I.ii.125ff.

9
William Camden,
The Funeral Procession of Queen Elizabeth I
, London, British Library, 2006.

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