Footnote 143:  The two dramatists may have worked together in such doubtful plays as Richard III, the hero of which is like Timur in an English dress, and Titus Andronicus, with its violence and horror.  In many strong scenes in Shakespeare’s works Marlowe’s influence is manifest.

Footnote 144:  Gammer Gurton’s Needle appeared c. 1562; Love’s Labour’s Lost, c. 1591.

Footnote 145:  King John, IV, 2.

Footnote 146:  Queen Mab, in Romeo and Juliet.

Footnote 147:  By Archdeacon Davies, in the seventeenth century.

Footnote 148:  In 1709, nearly a century after the poet’s death.

Footnote 149:  Robert Greene, one of the popular playwrights of the time, who attacked Shakespeare in a pamphlet called “A Groat’s Worth of Wit Bought with a Million of Repentance.”  The pamphlet, aside from its jealousy of Shakespeare, is a sad picture of a man of genius dying of dissipation, and contains a warning to other playwrights of the time, whose lives were apparently almost as bad as that of Greene.

Footnote 150:  Love’s Labour’s Lost, Comedy of Errors, Two Gentlemen of
Verona.

Footnote 151:  Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II, King John.  Prior to 1588 only three true Chronicle plays are known to have been acted.  The defeat of the Armada in that year led to an outburst of national feeling which found one outlet in the theaters, and in the next ten years over eighty Chronicle plays appeared.  Of these Shakespeare furnished nine or ten.  It was the great popular success of Henry VI, a revision of an old play, in 1592 that probably led to Greene’s jealous attack.

Footnote 152:  See Lee’s Life of William Shakespeare, pp. 188-196.

Footnote 153:  Like Henry VIII, and possibly the lost Cardenio.

Footnote 154:  A name given to the privilege—­claimed by the mediaeval Church for its clergy—­of being exempt from trial by the regular law courts.  After the Reformation the custom survived for a long time, and special privileges were allowed to ministers and their families.  Jonson claimed the privilege as a minister’s son.

Footnote 155:  A similar story of quackery is found in Chaucer, “The
Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale.”

Footnote 156:  In this and in A Fair Quarrel Middleton collaborated with William Rowley, of whom little is known except that he was an actor from c. 1607-1627.

Footnote 157:  The reader will find wholesome criticism of these writers, and selections from their works, in Charles Lamb’s Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, an excellent book, which helps us to a better knowledge and appreciation of the lesser Elizabethan dramatists.

Footnote 158:  The first five books were published 1594-1597, and are as Hooker wrote them.  The last three books, published after his death, are of doubtful authorship, but they are thought to have been completed from Hooker’s notes.