Introduction
Notes Introduction 1. Ben Jonson, ‘Epitaph on S. P. a Child of Q. El. Chappel’, in Ben Jonson, ed. C. H. Herford, Percy Simpson and Evelyn Simpson, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925–52), VIII (1947), p. 77, ll. 1–5. Further references are given in the text. 2. For example, Michael Shapiro, Children of the Revels: The Boy Companies of Shakespeare’s Time and their Plays (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), p. 104; Glynne Wickham, Herbert Berry and William Ingram, eds, English Professional Theatre, 1530–1660 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 268. 3. See Claire Busse, ‘Pretty Fictions and Little Stories’, in Childhood and Children’s Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550–1800, ed. Andrea Immel and Michael Witmore (London: Routledge, 2006), pp. 75–102 (p. 75). 4. See David Kathman, ‘How Old Were Shakespeare’s Boy Actors?’, Shakespeare Survey, 58 (2005), 220–46 (p. 223). 5. See Philippe Ariès, Centuries of Childhood (New York: Vintage, 1962), pp. 36–7. 6. For ease of reference I will generally refer to ‘the Children of the Queen’s Revels’, but I will use the title appropriate to a particular historical moment when discussing a specific event. 7. See Shapiro, Children of the Revels, p. 104; Shen Lin, “How Old were the Children of Paul’s?”, Theatre Notebook, 45 (1991), 121–31. 8. See Linda Austern, ‘Thomas Ravenscroft: Musical Chronicler of an Elizabethan Theatre Company’, Journal of American Musicological Society, 38 (1985), 238–63; W. Reavley Gair, ‘Chorister-Actors at Paul’s’, Notes and Queries, 25 (1978), 440–1; Lin, p.
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