Hamlet
10. Theodore Martin, "An Eye-Witness of John Kemble," Nineteenth Century (1880), p. 292.
11. Robert Hapgood, Shakespeare in Production: Hamlet (1999), p. 27.
12. James Henry Hackett, Notes and Comments upon Certain Plays and Actors of Shakespeare (early nineteenth century, printed 1968), p. 140.
13. William Charles Macready, The Diaries of William Charles Macready 1833-1851, ed. William Toynbee (1912), p. 242.
14. New York Herald, 28 November 1864.
15. J. Ranken Towse, "Henry Irving," Century Magazine, 27 March 1884, p. 666.
16. Charles Edward Russell, Julia Marlowe (1926), p. 39.
17. Academy, 18 September 1897.
18. Eden Phillpotts, "Irving as Hamlet," in We Saw Him Act (1939), p. 122.
19. George Bernard Shaw, Shaw on Shakespeare, ed. Edwin Wilson (1969), p. 91.
20. Shaw, Shaw on Shakespeare, p. 87.
21. Daily News, 13 September 1897.
22. James Agate, Brief Chronicles (1943), p. 247.
23. John Gielgud, Notes from the Gods (1994), p. 98.
24. Laurence Olivier, On Acting (1986), pp. 60-1.
25. Olivier, On Acting, p. 62.
26. Ivor Brown, quoted in Claire Cochrane, Shakespeare and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre 1913-29 (1993), p. 119.
27. Sunday Times, 30 August 1925.
28. Gielgud, Notes from the Gods, p. 102.
29. Hapgood, Shakespeare in Production, p. 65.
30. Quoted in Richard Findlater, The Player Kings (1921), p. 201.
31. Dawson, Shakespeare in Performance, p. 116.
32. Hapgood, Shakespeare in Production, p. 69.
33. Andy Lavender, Hamlet in Pieces: Shakespeare Reworked by Peter Brook, Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson (2001), p. 232.
34. Sarah Bernhardt, Harper's Bazaar, 15 December 1900, quoted in Hapgood, Shakespeare in Production, p. 47.
35. Voltaire, "Essai sur la poesie epique" 1733, Oeuvres Completes (1877-83) Vol. 8, pp. 317-18.
36. Jonathan Bate, "Which Hamlet?," note in Hamlet, RSC Programme, 2004.
37. Philip Franks, "Hamlet," in Russell Jackson and Robert Smallwood, eds. Players of Shakespeare 3 (1993).
38. Seventy-five lines of Horatio's were cut.
39. Tony Church played Polonius in this production.