Sir William Davenant, the Court Masque, and the English Seventeenth Century Scenic Stage, c1605 –c1700
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Chapter 1:  Royalist Dramatist
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Endnotes

1. Mary Edmond, Rare Sir William Davenant (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987). The main source for biographical details. Also see Dawn Lewcock, “Sir William D’Avenant”, The Literary Encyclopedia, Sept. 2006 (Literary Dictionary Company Limited), <www.litencyc.com>.
2. D. Heywood Brock, A Ben Jonson Companion (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1983) 281; Ian Donaldson, “Jonson, Benjamin (1572–1637)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 23 Feb. 2006 <http://www.oxforddnb.com.view/article/15116>.
3. David F. Gladish, ed., Sir William Davenant’s Gondibert (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971) 25, lines 865–867.
4. Unless otherwise stated, references to his works are from The Works of Sir William Davenant, 1673, 2 vols, Facsim. ed. (New York: Benjamin Blom, 1968).
5. Davenant, The Works 2: 414–416.
6. See Ira Clark, Professional Playwrights Massinger, Ford, Shirley and Brome (Kentucky: the University Press of Kentucky, 1992) 4–5 for a discussion of the differences.
7. W. W. Greg, A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration, 4 vols. (York, U.K., reprint 1970) 1057. Greg points out that Albovine was not the only play made into prose in the 1673 collected works but that The Platonic Lovers and The Just Italian as well as The Cruel Brother are also in prose, where they were in verse in the first editions. In addition, they are set out in double columns, and he suggests it was for reasons of space. It cannot be taken as an indication of an attempt to ready the play for a performance.
8. Gladish 272.
9. Gladish 286.
10. Davenant, The Works 1: 251–252.
11. Davenant, The Works 1: 247.
12. See A. H. Nethercot, Sir William D’Avenant, Poet Laureate and Playwright- Manager, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938) 86–89 for the context and Davenant, The Works 1: 224–228 for the poem.
13. See Greg 2: entries 506, 507.
14. Edmond 14.
15. John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Richard Barber (London, The Folio Society, 1975) 98.