- Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser, “What is Print Popularity? A Map of the Elizabethan Book Trade”, in Andy Kesson and E. Smith (eds), The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England, ebook edition, London, Routledge, 2016, loc. 842.

- W. Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Entire Play, Folger Shakespeare Library, available Shakespeare.folger.edu [FSL].

- W. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Entire Play, FSL.

- W. Shakespeare, Othello, Entire Play, FSL.

- W. Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Entire Play, FSL.

- For example, Alwin Thaler, “The Travelling Players in Shakespeare’s England”, Modern Philology, vol. XVII, 9, January 1920, p. 121-146, p. 129.

- W. Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Entire Play, FSL.

- W. Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Entire Play, FSL.

- Most of this material, with engravings, is now available on line thanks to the Gutenberg project.

- Henry HartMilman, Annals of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, Murray, 1868, p. 83-84.

- Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors Vulgarly Called Vagabonds, Edward Viles and F.J. Furnivall (eds), The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare’s Youth: Awdeley’s ‘Fraternitye of Vacabondes’ and Harman’s ‘Caveat’, 1st Edition online, London, Chatto and Windus, 1907.

- The difference between the two is that “A Wilde Roge is he that is borne a Roge: he is more sobtil and more geuen by nature to all kinde of knauery then the other”, ibid, loc. 1498.

- An Act for the Punishment of Vagabonds, and for the Relief of the Poor and Impotent, Catalogue Number HL/PO/PU/1/1572/14Eliz1n5, Parliamentary Archives, https://www.parliament.uk.

- W. Shakespeare, King Lear, Entire Play, FSL (I, 3, 1-210; III, 4, 50 et seq.; III, 6, 6 et seq.; IV, 1, 27 et seq.; IV, 5, 2 et seq.).

- John Awdeley, A Fraternity of Vagabonds, dans The Rogues and Vagabonds…, loc. 872.

- “Harold Bloom on Harry Potter, the Internet and more”, available on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVWiwd0P0c0, 7 Sept 2016.

- Tom of Bedlam’s Song: Anonymous Ballad, orally transmitted, first written down in an anonymous commonplace book 1620. Text available on: http://www.thehypertexts.com/Tom%20O’%20Bedlam’s%20Song.htm.

- Thomas Harman, A Caveat, loc. 872 et seq.

- Ibid., loc. 898.

- Ibid., loc. 1414.

- W. Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Entire Play, FSL.

- W. Shakespeare, Love’s Labours Lost, Entire Play, FSL.

- W. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Entire Play, FSL.

- W. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Entire Play, FSL.

- W. Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Entire Play, FSL.

- W. Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Entire Play, FSL.

- W. Shakespeare, Richard III, Entire Play, FSL.

- Frederich Engels, Letter to Karl Marx, December 10, 1873, Marxist Internet Archive, available https://www.marxists.org.

- This theory was widely developed by Soviet critics in the 1960s. Let A. Smirnov’s “Shakespeare, the Renaissance and the Age of Barroco”, dans Roman Samarin and Alexander Nikolyukin (eds), Shakespeare In the Soviet Union: A Collection of Articles, London, Progress Publishers, 1966, p. 58-83 stand as an example.