Aut Christopherus Marlowe, aut diabolus, “A study of Shakespere,” by Swinburne, p. 52.
43 “Mr. Fleay believes him [the writer of the plays] to have been a partner of Shakespere, whose name so far is undiscoverable.”
44 “There were tiers of galleries or scaffolds; beneath these, the boxes or rooms intended for persons of the higher class, and which at the private theaters were secured with locks, the keys being given to the individuals who engaged them.”
45 “The top of his performance was the ghost in Hamlet.”
46. “I wonder that the commentators should have overlooked so obvious an origin of this passage as Lucan’s description (Pharsalia lib. 1) of the prodigies which preceded the death of Cæsar.”
47 Marlowe’s translation of Lucan’s Pharsalia was first published in 1600. “Lucan’s First Booke Translated Line for Line by Chr. Marlow, at London, 1600.”
48 “I hold then, that the object which Shakespere had in view in introducing this speech into Hamlet was to expose the weakness of his opponent Nash as a playwright.”
1 “Study of Shakespere,” by Swinburne, p. 52.
2 Thomas Beard’s, the Puritan, Account of Marlowe’s Death in Bullen’s Marlowe, p. 63.
3 The performance commenced at 3 o’clock.—Dyce’s Shakespere, vol. 1, p. 45.
4 A nest of alleys near the bottom of St. Martin’s Lane, so called by Jonson.—Knight’s London, vol. 1, p. 369.
5 Stow’s Survey, Ed. 1633, p. 470.
6 Dyce’s Shakespere, vol. 1, p. 40.
7 Taine’s History of English Literature, Book II, chap. 2.
8 Induction to Cynthia’s Revels. Ben Jonson.
9 Dyce’s Shakespere, vol. 1, p. 40.
10 See note 15.
11 See note 15.
12 Swinburne’s Study of Shakespere, p. 24.
13 “He trod the stage with applause.”—Langbaine.
14 See notes 18 to 24.
15 Hallam and Lamb.
16 See note 35.
17 Dyce’s Marlowe, Bullen’s Marlowe.
18 “Doubtless Bame was backed by some person or persons of power and position.”—Bullen’s Marlowe, Introduction, lxix.
19 “The Atheist’s Tragedie,” vol. iii.—Bullen’s Marlowe.
20 Jew of Malta, Act. I.
21 Halliwell-Phillipp’s Outlines, 105.
22 Bullen’s Marlowe, Introduction, 58.
23 14 Eliz. c. 5 (1572).
24 Id.
25 “The earliest legitimate theater south of the Thames; opened early in 1592”—Halliwell-Phillipp’s Outlines, p. 79.
26 So held in the case of the Dean of Asaph as the law; but the doctrine was vigorously attacked by Erskine in his great speech on the “Rights on Juries.” See British Eloquence by Goodrich, pp. 655-683.
27 Chamber’s Enc. Eng. Lit., vol 1, 176.
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