Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 January 2009
1. This research has been financed by grants from the Australian Research Grants Committee. Assistance has also been given by the Flinders University of South Australia.
2. I wish to make grateful acknowledgement of the contribution made to this research by my research assistant Jeanette Massy-Westropp.
3. We are indebted to the following libraries for microfilms of some of the sources quoted in this article: Bibliothèque de L'Arsenal, Paris; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; The British Library, London; The New York Public Library, New York; The State Library of Victoria, Melbourne; Yale University Library, New Haven; Toneelmuseum, Amsterdam.
4. op. cit., p. 148.
5. The French and Latin translations are by Jeanette Massy-Westropp.
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