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37. Downes 52.

38. Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearean Stage, 1574–1642 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980) 59.

39. See Bentley for a detailed discussion of the companies, the playhouses, the dramatists, and the plays.

40. See the lists of performances in Gurr 216–228.

41. Keith Sturgess, Jacobean Private Theatres (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987) discusses the facilities and performance style in the private theatres with reconstructions of presentations of The Tempest, The Duchess of Malfi, The Broken Heart, and the masque Coelum Britanicum.

42. For a full discussion of the project, see Bentley 6: 304–309.

43. Smith 282.

44. Gladish 16, lines 506–523.

45. Edmond 109.