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Echoes of Shakspere in Later Elizabethan Drama

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Fred L. Jones*
Affiliation:
Mercer University

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PMLA , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , September 1930 , pp. 791 - 803
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1930

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References

1 Lines 270-409, Simpson, The School of Shakespeare, ii, p. 180-1.

2 Ibid., p. 208.

3 Merchant of Venice, II. 8.

4 Hazlitt's Dodsley, viii, p. 168-9.

5 For a general discussion of the usurer plays, see A. B. Stonex, “The Usurer in Elizabethan Drama,” PMLA, xxxi, where Shakspere's, Marston's, and May's dramas are considered in connection with the usurer type.

6 IV. (1). The text of the play as originally printed was not divided into scenes.

7 The Old Couple, IV. (1), Hazlitt's Dodsley, xii, p. 53-8.

8 Publ. 1641 and “acted by the Queen's men at the Cockpit; therefore before 12th May 1636.”—Fleay, Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, ii, p. 67.

9 Hazlitt's Dodsley, xii. The play has no scene division. Act II has four scenes, the first covering pp. 437-443.

10 Adams, Life of Shakespeare, p. 220.

11 This and the next parallel are noted by Hazlitt, who fails, however, to point out that the whole of the balcony scene is laid under contribution. The next one is also included in The Shakspere Allusion-Book, i, p. 469.

12 Hazlitt's note: “The whole passage seems to be imitated from one in Venus and Adonis.” The borrowing is, of course, greater; not only this passage, but the entire episode is a take-off on Shakspere's poem.

13 Julius Cœsar, IV. 3. 218-221.

14 Publ. 1640; reprinted in Hazlitt's Dodsley, xiv. The play has no scene division. IV. (2) covers pp. 80-3.

15 p. 83-4.

16 Publ. 1657. Hazlitt's Dodsley, xiv, p. 106.

17 This parallel is noted by the editor.