¹ David Lee Clark “Shelley and Shakespeare,” PMLA, liv (March, 1939), 261–287.

² Shelley's Poetical Works (Oxford ed.), “The Cenci,” iii.ii.9–52.

³ Othello (Student Cambridge ed.), v.ii.7–15.

⁴ It is interesting to note that this image received another expression in Book I of Browning's Ring and the Book:

Man's breath were vain to light a virgin wick,—

Half-burned-out, all but quite-quenched wicks o'the lamp

Stationed for temple-service on this earth,

These indeed let him breathe on and relume!

⁵ The Cenci, ii.ii. 107–147. The expression “unravelled hopes” in this passage also contributes to the Shakespearean flavor.

⁶ Ibid., v.i.77–83. The simile of the stage is typically Elizabethan.

⁷ The Cenci, v.i.56–70; Othello, iv.ii.207–222.

⁸ The Cenci, i.i.67–90.

⁹ Othello, i.i.41–65.

¹⁰ The Cenci, iii.i.207–223.

¹¹ Othello, iii.iii.460–479.

¹² David Lee Clark, op. cit., 287.