Works Cited
Fisher TP, Archival Capture

A digital conversion of the archival JP2 image depicting the title page of Cotgrave’s English Treasury. Reproduced with the kind permission of the Thomas Fisher Library, University of Toronto (download here: ​).

While for technical reasons this section of the web project is identified as a “Works Cited,” its formatting is designed to provide greater direction for any critical reader interested in the subject matter. It includes works that, though not necessarily “cited” within this web project, are essential for a critical understanding of the role of Cotgrave’s English Treasury as the “first English drama anthology.”

The section begins with “Secondary Sources” listed first, as the “Primary Sources” have been referenced within the project with the information necessary to track them down. The “Secondary Sources” are further divided into two sections: the first lists relevant works of “Criticism,” and the second comprises “Critical Editions” that have provided line numbers, act, and scene divisions for the referenced passages from the project. A third section has been added, providing a list of various useful tools related to research in the digital humanities and the creation of the website.

Notably, this web project supplements the scholarly information of a forthcoming critical edition of English Treasury, which includes additional commentary on related scholarly sources as well as insights into readers and owners of the book. Specifically, the critical edition outlines the essential connection between the annotated copies of Cotgrave’s English Treasury , the context of Oldys’s notes on its sources, and the creation of Thomas Hayward’s British Muse (1738). Hayward’s three-volume quotation book reproduces and often corrects the same quotations found in Cotgrave’s earlier anthology.

All web-links were last checked on the date provided on the homepage of this web project.


1. SECONDARY SOURCES

(a) Criticism

Astington, John. “Dramatic Extracts in the Interregnum.” The Review of English Studies 54, no. 217 (2003): 601–14. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3661477.
Bentley, Gerald Eades. The Jacobean and Caroline Stage. 7 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949.
—. “John Cotgrave’s English Treasury of Wit and Language and the Elizabethan Drama.” Studies in Philology 40 (1943): 186–203. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4172613.
—. Shakespeare and Jonson: Their Reputations in the Seventeenth Century Compared. 2 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1945. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.36367.
Beloe, William. Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books. 2 vols. London: F. C. and J. Rivington, 1807, p. 1:246. University of California, B412 1807. Digitized for Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/anecdotesofliter01beloiala.
Black, Matthew W., and Matthais A. Shaaber. Shakespeare’s Seventeenth-Century Editors 1632–1685. New York: MLA, 1937. https://archive.org/details/shakespearesseve00blac.
Briggs, William Dinsmore. “Source-Material for Jonson’s Plays Part II.” Modern Language Notes 31, no. 6 (1916): 328–29.
Case, Arthur E. A Bibliography of English Poetical Miscellanies 1521–1700. Oxford: Bibliographical Society, 1929. https://archive.org/details/bibliographyofen002547mbp.
“Cotgrave’s excerpts.” Lost Plays Database. Edited by Roslyn L. Knutson, David McInnis, and Matthew Steggle. Folger Shakespeare Library. https://lostplays.folger.edu/Cotgrave's_excerpts.
Estill, Laura. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2015.
—. “The Urge to Organize Early Modern Miscellanies: Reading Cotgrave’s The English Treasury of Wit and Language.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 112, no. 1 (March, 2018): 27–73.
Estill, Laura, and Beatrice Montedoro. “Seventeenth-century approaches to The Devil’s Law-Case.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 31, no. 3 (Mar. 2018): 151–160. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2018.1441702.
Gerritsen, Johan. “The Dramatic Piracies of 1661.” Studies in Bibliography 11 (1958): 117–31. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40371234.
Greg, W. W. “The Bakings of Betsy.” The Library 3rd ser., 7, no. 11 (July 1911): 225–59. https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s3-II.7.225.
—. A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. 4 vols. Oxford: Bibliographical Society, 1939–1959.
Harbage, Alfred. Annals of English Drama, 975–1700. Rev. S. Schoenbaum. 3rd ed. Rev. Sylvia Stoler Wagonheim. London: Routledge, 1989. https://archive.org/details/annalsofenglishd0000harb_f9n3.
Harris, P. R. “Identification of printed books acquired by the British Museum, 1753–1836.” In Giles Mandelbrote and Barry Taylor, eds, Libraries within the Library: The Origins of The British Library’s Printed Collections. London: The British Library, 2009, pp. 387–423. Freely available for download from The British Library’s website: https://doi.org/10.23636/167.
Harrison, William. A Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Shakespeariana. London: Thomas Richards, 1866. University of California, 932a H323 des. Digitized for Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/descriptivecatal00harrrich.
Hayward, Thomas [and William Oldys]. The British Muse, or, A Collection of Thoughts Moral, Natural, and Sublime, of our English Poets: Who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. 3 vols. London: F. Cogan and J. Nourse, 1738. Digitized from the British Library copy:
Isherwood, Anne Christine. “Cut out ‘into little stars’: Shakespeare in Anthologies.” Unpublished PhD Diss. King’s College London, 2014. http://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/12691146/Studentthesis-Anne_Isherwood_2014.pdf.
D’Israeli, Isaac. Amenities of Literature. 3rd ed., 3 vols. London: Edward Moxon, 1841, p. 3:42 Pennsylvania State University, shelfmark unidentified. Digitized for HathiTrust. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000006207960&seq=11.
Jowett, John. “For Many of your Companies: Middleton’s Early Readers.” In Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works, edited by Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007, 286–330.
Kelliher, W.H. “Cotgrave, John (bap. 1611?, d. in or after 1655), anthologist”. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 60 vols. Edited by David Cannadine, et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1885–2004. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/6388.
Lopez, Jeremy. Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Massai, Sonia. “Editorial Pledges in Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts.” In Renaissance Paratexts, edited by Helen Smith and Louise Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 91–106.
McEvilla, Joshua. “John Cotgrave’s 1650s Subject Classification and Its Influence on ‘A Dialogue Betwixt Eight Youths’.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 29, no. 4 (Nov. 2016): 200–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2016.1233046.
—. “John Cragge’s The Wits Interpreter.” The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 18, no. 3 (September 2017): 337–44. https://academic.oup.com/library/article/18/3/337/4102863/John-Cragge-s-The-Wits-Interpreter.
—. “Shakespeare and Jonson in ‘A Garden of Tulips’.” Notes & Queries 63, no. 3 (Nov. 2016): 559–66. http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/content/63/4/559.full.pdf.
Munro, John, rev. and enl. The Shakspere Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Shakspere from 1591 to 1700. By C. M. Ingleby and F. J. Furnivall. 2 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1909. https://archive.org/details/shakspereallusio02ingluoft.
Pollard, A. W., and G. R. Redgrave. A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475–1640. 2nd ed. Rev. and enl. W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, and Katharine F. Pantzer. 3 vols. London: Bibliographical Society, 1976–1991.
Rumbold, Kate. “Shakespeare Anthologized.” In The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts, edited by Mark Thornton Burnett and Adrian Streete. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2011, 88–103.
Stern, Tiffany. Documents of Performance in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. https://archive.org/details/documentsofperfo0000ster.
Wang, Tso-Liang. The Literary Reputation of John Webster to 1830. Salzburg: University of Salzburg, 1975.
Wiggins, Martin, in association with Catherine Richardson. British Drama 1533–1642: A Catalogue. 9 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012–2019.
—. “Where to Find Lost Plays.” In Lost Plays in Shakespeare’s England, edited by David McInnis and Matthew Steggle. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 255–78.
Williams, J. B. A History of English Journalism to the Foundation of the Gazette. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1908, 49–50. https://archive.org/details/ahistoryenglish00muddgoog.
Wing, Donald. Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries 1641–1700. 2nd ed. Rev. and enl. John J. Morrison, Carolyn W. Nelson, and Matthew Seccombe. 4 vols. New York: Modern Language Association, 1972–1998.

(b) Critical Editions

Beaumont, Francis, and John Fletcher. The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon. 10 vols. Edited by Fredson Bowers, et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966–1996.
Brome, Richard. Richard Brome Online. Edited by Richard Cave, et al. Royal Holloway, University of London, and the Arts & Humanities Research Council, 2010. http://www.dhi.ac.uk/brome.
Glapthorne, Henry. A Critical Old-Spelling Edition of Henry Glapthorne’s “The Ladies Priviledge” (1640). Edited by Robert Milton Brown. PhD thesis. U of Maryland, 1977. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. https://www.proquest.com/docview/302854425.
Goffe, Thomas. The Raging Turke [and The Couragious Turke]. Edited by David Carnegie. The Malone Society Reprints. Oxford: The Malone Society, 1974.
Greville, Fulke. Poems and Dramas of Fulke Greville, First Lord Brooke. Edited by Geoffrey Bullough. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1939.
Jonson, Ben, et al. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. Edited by David Bevington, Martin Butler, and Ian Donaldson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012. Online Edition. 2012. Edited by David Gants. http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/benjonson.
May, Thomas. “The Old Couple.” Edited by M. Simplicia Fitzgibbons. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1943. https://archive.org/details/oldcouplebythoma0000unse.
Mayne, Jasper. A Critical Old Spelling Edition of Jasper Mayne’s “The Citye Match.” Edited by John Woodruff Ward. PhD thesis. U of Delaware, 1975. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/critical-old-spelling-edition-jasper-maynes-citye/docview/302759839/se-2.
Middleton, Thomas, et al. Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. Edited by Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, et al. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. Oxford Scholarly Editions Online, 2012. https://www.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199580538.book.1.
Middleton, Thomas. Hengist, King of Kent; or The Mayor of Queenborough. Edited by R. C. Bald [Thomas Middleton, Hengist King off Kent [sic, from colophon], Folger Shakespeare Library, Lambarde MS 1478.2.]. New York & London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938. https://archive.org/details/hengistkingofken0000midd.
—. Hengist, King of Kent; or The Mayor of Queenborough. [Edited by Grace Ioppolo, from Thomas Middleton, Hengist king of Kent or the Mayor of Quinborough, University of Nottingham, Portland MS PwV 20.] Oxford and New York: Published for the Malone Society by Oxford University Press, 2003.
Shakespeare, William, et al. The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition. Edited by Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan. Oxford: Oxford UP. Oxford Scholarly Editions Online, 2016. https://www.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199591152.book.1.
Suckling, John. The Works of Sir John Suckling: The Plays. Edited by L.A. Beaurline. Oxford: Clarendon, 1971. Oxford Scholarly Editions Online, 2012. https://www.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198118497.book.1.

2. PRIMARY SOURCES

Anonymous. “A Dialogue Betwixt eight Youths.” In “Orationes Carinina Exercitia.” Canterbury Cathedral Archives MS, LitMA/E/41, Fols. 147v–149r. Digitized for Canterbury Cathedral Image Archive. https://ims.canterbury-cathedral.org.
Anonymous. The Wits academy: or, the muses delight. 8th ed. London: N.pub., 1677. Bodleian Library, 8° R 75(1) Art. Photographed for The Eighteenth Century (microfilm series). Digitized for Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_london-drollery-or-th_hicks-william_1701.
Beaumont, Francis, and John Fletcher. The Coxcombe. In Comedies and Tragedies. London: Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley, 1647. McCormick Library, Northwestern University, L Kestnbaum B379p. Digitized for Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/BeaumontFletcher1647.
—. The Queene of Corinth. In Comedies and Tragedies. London: Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley, 1647. McCormick Library, Northwestern University, L Kestnbaum B379p. Digitized for Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/BeaumontFletcher1647.
Brome, Richard. The City Wit, or, the Woman Wears the Breeches. In Five New Playes. London: [Humphrey Moseley], Richard Marriot, and Thomas Dring, 1653. Thomas Pennant Barton copy at Boston Public Library, G.3810.61. Digitized for Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/fivenewplayesviz00brom_0.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. The history of the valorous and wittie knight-errant, Don-Quixote of the Mancha Translated out of the Spanish. [Alternate title: Don Quixote. Part 1.] London: Ed. Blount and W. Barret, 1612. Photographed for Early English Books (microfilm series). Digitized for Early English Books Online. https://www.proquest.com/books/history-valorous-vvittie-knight-errant-don/docview/2240897077/se-2.
Cotgrave, John. The English Treasury of Wit and Language, Collected Out of the Most and Best of Our English Drammatick Poems, Methodically Digested into Common Places for Generall Use. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1655.

Glapthorne, Henry. The Ladies Priviledge. London: Francis Constable, 1640. Thomas Pennant Barton copy at Boston Public Library, XG 3962.3. Digitized for Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/ladiespriviledge00glap_0.
Greene, Robert. Neuer too Late. London: Iohn Smethwicke, 1611. Photographed for Early English Books (microfilm series), 12255.5. Digitized for Early English Books Online. https://www.proquest.com/books/greenes-neuer-too-late-both-parts-sent-all/docview/2264217354/se-2.
Greville, Fulke. Mustapha. In Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes. London: Henry Seyle, 1633. George Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University, 821 B871 1633. Digitized for Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/gpl_2690383.
[Goffe, Thomas] The Bastard. London: M[ercy]. M[eighen]., T[homas]. Collins, and Gabrielle Bedell, 1652. Photographed for Early English Books (microfilm series) from one of three copies at the Huntington Library. Digitized for Early English Books Online. https://www.proquest.com/books/bastard-tragedy/docview/2248528391/se-2.
Goffe, Thomas. The Raging Turke, or, Baiazet the Second. London: Richard Meighen, 1631. The Thomas Pennant Barton copy at Boston Public Library, PR2539.G6 R3 1631. Digitized for Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/ragingturkeorbai00goff.
Jonson, Ben. Seianus His Fall. 1st ed. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1605. Photographed from the British Library copy 644.b.53. Digitized for The British Library. https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000002AE8E.
May, Thomas. The Old Couple. London: Samuel Speed, 1658. Photographed for Early English Books (microfilm series) from the Huntington Library copy, 145257. Digitized for Early English Books Online. https://www.proquest.com/books/old-couple-comedy-thomas-may-esq/docview/2240969732/se-2.
Middleton, Thomas. Hengist king of Kent or the Mayor of Quinborough, University of Nottingham, Portland MS PwV 20.
—. Hengist King off Kent [sic, from colophon], Folger Shakespeare Library, Lambarde MS 1478.2. Digitized for LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection. https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/view/search?q==%22J.b.6%22.
—. The Mayor of Quinborough: A Tragedy. London: Henry Herringman, 1661. Digitized from the Thomas Pennant Barton copy at Boston Public Library, G.3974.48. Digitized for Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/mayorofquinborou00midd.
Overbury, Thomas, et al. New and choise characters, of seuerall authors together with that exquisite and unmatcht poeme, The wife. London: Laurence L’Isle, 1615. Photographed for Early English Books (microfilm series) from the British Library copy, C.184.f.29. Digitized for Early English Books Online. https://www.proquest.com/books/new-choise-characters-seuerall-authors-together/docview/2240921644/se-2.
P[hillips], E[dward]. “A Garden of Tulips, OR The Pleasant Prospect.” In The Mysteries of Love and Eloquence, or, The Arts of Wooing and Complementing. Photographed from Wellcome Collection, EPB/A/41099. Digitized for Wellcome Trust. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ukn2yvg5.
Philanax. Andronicus … : Impieties Long Successe or Heavens Late Revenge. London: Richard Hall, 1661. Photographed for Early English Books (microfilm series) from either the Huntington Library copy 111031 or K-D 183. Digitized for Early English Books Online. https://www.proquest.com/books/andronicus-tragedy-impieties-long-successe/docview/2240852723/se-2.
Strachey, William. “Vpon SEIANVS.” In Seianvs His Fall, by Ben Jonson. 1st ed. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1605. Photographed from the British Library copy, 644.b.53. Digitized for The British Library. https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000002AE8E.
Suckling, John. Aglaura. In Fragmenta avrea a collection of all the incomparable peeces. London: Humphrey Moseley, MDCLVI [1646]. Photographed for Early English Books (microfilm series) from the copy at The British Library, 1076.h.21. Digitized for Early English Books Online. https://www.proquest.com/books/fragmenta-aurea-collection-all-incomparable/docview/2240891501/se-2.
—. The Goblins. In Fragmenta avrea a collection of all the incomparable peeces [sic]. London: Humphrey Moseley, MDCLVI [1646]. Photographed for Early English Books (microfilm series) from the copy at The British Library, 1076.h.21. Digitized for Early English Books Online. https://www.proquest.com/books/fragmenta-aurea-collection-all-incomparable/docview/2240891501/se-2.

3. DIGITAL RESOURCES

Baron, Alistair. “VARD 2.” https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/vard.

This application provides a means of bulk processing text documents for spelling regularization according to a standard set of rules. It was used in this project for the secondary checking of Cotgrave’s English Treasury against known sources he used in an attempt to find similar passages.

Bloomfield, Lou. “WCopyFind.” Bloomfield Media. https://plagiarism.bloomfieldmedia.com/software/wcopyfind.

This tool for plagiarism was employed to cross-examine transcribed texts from EEBO and OCR texts from other resources against a transcript of English Treasury, with the purpose of finding Cotgrave’s sources that currently remain lost.

Canterbury Cathedral Image Archive. https://ims.canterbury-cathedral.org.

This resource provides low-resolution digital images of the manuscript “Orationes Carinina Exercitia” (Canterbury Cathedral Archives MS, LitMA/E/41), which contains a copy of the derivative text from English Treasury titled “A Dialogue Betwixt eight Youths.” A transcript of this document will be provided in the forthcoming scholarly edition based on this web project.

Coral, Lenore. “British Book Auction Catalogues 1801–1900: A Preliminary Version of Munby-Coral 2.” 2014; update: 2016. Edited by Annette Fern. BibSite. Bibliographical Society of America. https://bibsocamer.org/bibsite-home/list-of-resources.

Coral’s “British Book Auction Catalogues” has provided sales information for many of the copies of English Treasury listed in the Copies section of this web project. It was used to identify the sales associated with particular owners of the copies.

DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks. Edited by Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.

This database simplified the process of finding information from W. W. Greg’s A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration (1939–1959) and has suggested certain design elements and navigation features incorporated into this project.

Early English Books Online. ProQuest. https://eebo.chadwyck.com.

EEBO has been used for string searches of keywords from Cotgrave’s extracts, in addition to proximity searches of adjacent and close words from his unsourced texts. It has also been used as a repository of facsimile images for many of the playbooks.

Eighteenth-century Collections Online. Gale Cengage Learning. https://www.gale.com/resources.

Similar to EEBO, this resource has been used for tracing Cotgrave’s sources. However, it proved more helpful in identifying early sales of particular copies of his book.

English Short Title Catalogue. The British Library. http://estc.bl.uk.

The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) provided a valuable resource, including a partial list of extant copies of Cotgrave’s English Treasury. It was consulted for bibliographical information pertaining to various source texts that Cotgrave used in compiling his book.

HathiTrust Digital Library. HathiTrust. https://hathitrust.org

HathiTrust is a digital content repository that collates digital materials contributed by various institutions and digital partners, including Google Books and the Internet Archive. While it operates as a partially commercial entity with a for-profit aspect, it is administered by the University of Michigan. Notably, it was employed in this project for conducting full-text searches using keywords associated with Cotgrave and his English Treasury, such as “English Treasury of Wit,” “Treasury of Wit,” and “Cotgrave’s Treasury.”

Hedley, Jonathan. HTML Tidy. https://infohound.net/tidy.

HTML Tidy, designed by Jonathan Hedley, offers a user-friendly web interface for the widely used HTML Tidy project. The project can be accessed via SourceForge at https://tidy.sourceforge.net/. HTML Tidy provides an intuitive and easy-to-navigate interface, allowing for seamless execution of command line operations available from the tools located at https://www.html-tidy.org.

Ho, Don. Notepad++. https://notepad-plus-plus.org.

The development of this project involved utilizing two text editors: Notepad.exe (included with Windows 10) and Notepad++, designed by Don Ho. Notepad++ played an instrumental role by facilitating tasks such as find-replace operations and comprehensive review of components within the site, often utilizing nested commands.

Internet Archive. http://archive.org.

Internet Archive has provided facsimiles of various early playbooks used in this project, as well as images of the Thomas Fisher Library copy of English Treasury, which they digitized for this project.

King, Stephen. GrepWin. https://github.com/stefankueng/grepWin.

For implementing corrections in the titles and subtitles across different HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files, the utility GrepWin proved to be essential. GrepWin, developed by Stephen King, is a lightweight and portable utility that exhibits exceptional versatility for digital humanities projects like Cotgrave Online.

Literature Online. Edited by ProQuest. http://literature.proquest.com.

Many texts beyond the scope of EEBO are available for searching through Literature Online (LION), such as D’Avenant’s The Platonic Lovers, the second quarto text of Hamlet, and Shakerley Marmion’s The Antiquary.

O’Leary, Niall. Omnia. https://www.omnia.ie.

Omnia.ie is a meta search engine that aggregates resources primarily sourced from Europeana (https://www.europeana.eu/en) and the Digital Public Library of America (https://dp.la/). For this project, it played a pivotal role in identifying editions of books to complement the texts available through Early English Books Online, the Internet Archive, and HaithiTrust.org.

OED Online. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com.

While the current version of this project does not include any citations of particular words from the OED, early versions of the project relied heavily on the resource for considering the textual variants among the particular editions of Cotgrave’s sources.

OpenAI. ChatGPT. https://chat.openai.com.

ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, played a pivotal role in various aspects of this project. Its contributions encompass improving the codebase for multi-platform compatibility, editing specific sections of the project, and providing invaluable critical feedback. Of notable significance, ChatGPT's suggestions greatly aided in devising diverse design approaches for optimizing tables and menus.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Edited by David Cannadine, et al. 23 Sep. 2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://www.oxforddnb.com.

The Dictionary of National Biography, in its web edition, has not only provided access to the biography of Cotgrave cited in “Secondary Sources” (under “Criticism”) but has also been consulted for additional information about the dramatists and authors linked to Cotgrave, his English Treasury, and the quotation books of his period.

Shakespeare in Quarto. The British Library. (n.d.). https://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare.

The British Library’s Shakespeare in Quarto project has been an invaluable resource for determining the specific editions of Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, and Pericles that Cotgrave used for his citations. Additionally, it provided valuable insights into the ownership marks within certain copies of Cotgrave’s English Treasury.

The Shakespeare Quartos Archive. (n.d.). http://www.quartos.org.

Although The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is no longer directly accessible through the Internet, it has been fully captured and archived by the Internet Archive. Like Shakespeare in Quarto, this resource has played a crucial role in providing textual and ownership information essential to this project, particularly regarding the specific editions of Hamlet that Cotgrave used.

Skiljan, Irfan. IrfanView. https://www.irfanview.com.

While there are many applications that support image manipulation and are multi-platform, IrfanView can interpret the unusual “JP2” format used by Internet Archive in storing their archival images of the books they scan. Furthermore, it allows for bulk processing of these files into standard image formats, such as JPG and TIF. This function has been essential to the project as the archival images stored on Internet Archive include original, untrimmed scans of early books, and often photographs of reference materials that are not apparent to users of the web-platform for interacting with the books of their database.

TaffyDB. https://taffydb.com.

While several components of this site are standard to web scripting and do not require in-depth discussion, TaffyDB holds a specialized role as a JavaScript library that offers “powerful in-memory database capabilities” for client-side scripts. Through TaffyDB and the scripts integrated into this project, all database operations within the Facet Search and Edition Search are managed locally. This negates the need for server access and direct connection to a server. TaffyDB proves valuable in the digital humanities by enabling users direct access to the site’s code, the sorted entities (or search tables), and specific features of the search parameters.