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[1] Dr. Georg Brandes' William Shakespeare: A Critical Study, is by far the best attempt at an interpretation of Shakespeare's plays upon spiritual lines that has yet been made; but the biographical value of this excellent analysis is involved by the fact that Dr. Brandes, at the time he wrote—now over thirty years ago—accepted Thomas Tyler's Pembroke-Fitton theory of the sonnets, and with it the distorted chronology for the plays of the Sonnet period, which it necessarily involves.

[2] A Life of William Shakespeare, by Sir Sidney Lee, 1916, p. 59.

[3] Ibid. 61.

[4] A Life of William Shakespeare, by Sir Sidney Lee, 1916, pp. 61, 55.

[5] "Between 1586 and 1592 we lose all trace of Shakespeare." William Shakespeare: A Critical Study, Georg Brandes, p. 18.

[6] English Dramatic Companies, 1558–1641, vol. i. p. 57. By John Tucker Murray.

[7] Ibid.

[8] It is probable that previous to 1587 the Rose was an inn used for theatrical purposes.

[9] Mistress Davenant, the Dark Lady of Shakespeare's Sonnets.