16. Davenant, The Works 2: 437–438.

17. Davenant, The Works 2: 485.

18. See Greg 2: lost plays 37.

19. Davenant, The Works 2: 441.

20. Davenant, The Works 2: 442.

21. Davenant, The Works 1: 234–235.

22. Davenant, The Works 2: 165.

23. Gerald Eades Bentley, The Jacobean and Caroline Stage, 7 vols. (Oxford, Clarendon Press 1941–1968) 3: 222.

24. Davenant, The Works 2: 165.

25. Bentley 3: 223.

26. Martin Butler, Theatre and Crisis 1632–1642 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984) 141.

27. John Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, ed. Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume (London: The Society for Theatre Research, 1987) 51. Downes became the book-keeper at Lincoln’s Inn Fields for Davenant after the Restoration. He brought out his record of the Restoration Theatres in 1708. The original is a chaotic and unreliable document but has invaluable information. The modern edition corrects many errors of fact and chronology.

28. All quotations from Pepys’ Diary are dated for ease of reference in any edition. Quotations are taken from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Latham and Mathews, 11 vols. (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1970–1983).

29. Davenant The Works 2: 178.

30. Bentley 3: 205.

31. Bentley 5: 1287/1288. Bentley discusses the play, its possible attributions, and its presentation before the Elector.

32. Bentley 3: 203, 220.

33. Bentley 1:, 17. Also qtd. in Irwin Smith, Shakespeare’s Blackfriars Playhouse, Its History and Design (London, Peter Owen, 1966) 262. Smith gives further information, including suggestions for the ways in which the King’s Men may have presented certain plays, and has copies of various documents in several appendices.

34. See E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage, 1923, corrected ed., 4 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951) vol. 2, book 4, 475–514 for the history of this theatre built within the precincts of the former Blackfriars Monastery.

35. Clark 4–5; R. J. Kaufmann Richard Brome, Caroline Playwright (New York: Columbia University Press 1961) ch. 7.

36. See Alan C. Dessen and Leslie Thomson, A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1580–1642 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).