↑ See Taylor (2002, 4); Banham (1998, 141); Hattaway asserts that "Richard Burbage ... played Hieronimo and also Richard III but then was the first Hamlet, Lear, and Othello" (1982, 91); Peter Thomson berhujah bahawa identiti Hamlet sebagai Burbage terbina ke dalam seni drama di beberapa detik pementasan: "we will profoundly misjudge the position if we do not recognise that, whilst this is Hamlet talking about the groundlings, it is also Burbage talking to the groundlings" (1983, 24); rujuk juga Thomson tentang janggut pemeran pertama (1983, 110).
