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Unless otherwise indicated, all Shakespeare quotations are taken from The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 5th ed., ed. David Bevington (New York: Pearson, 2004). For more information on citing our work, click here.
For site identifications, we are particularly indebted to the work of Adrian Prockter and Robert Taylor, The A to Z of Elizabethan London (London: Harry Margary, 1979).
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Gerritsen, Johan. “De Witt, Van Buchell, the Swan, and the Second Globe: An Assessment of the Evidence.” Shakespeare Yearbook 15 (2005): 9-31.
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Gibbs, Richard. An invitation to Mr. John Garlick's houſe at the sign of the George in Love-Lane near Billingſgate, to the eating of a diſh of meat, called a Spanish oleo. London, 1683. Wing G665. Rpt. Early English Books Online. http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home.
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Goodman, Nicholas. Hollands leaguer. London, 1632. STC 12027. Rpt. Early English Books Online. http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home.
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Heywood, Thomas. The Second Part of, If you know not me, you know no bodie. VVith the building of the Royall Exchange: And the famous Victorie of Queene Elizabeth, in the Yeare 1588. London, 1606. STC 13336 . Henry E. Huntington Library copy rpt. Early English Books Online. http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home. Also available in an in-type, collated, normalized transcription: Doran, Madeline, ed. 2 If you Know not Me, you Know Nobody. Oxford: Printed for the Malone Society at the Oxford UP, 1935. The literary references are taken from the Doran edition.
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