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Notes
See George R. Price, "The Authorship and Bibliography of The Revenger's Tragedy," The Library, 5th series, 15 (1960), 262-277; Peter B. Murray, "The Authorship of The Revenger's Tragedy," PBSA, 56 (1962), 195-218, incorporated in A Study of Cyril Tourneur (1964), pp. 144-189; David J. Lake, The Canon of Thomas Middleton's Plays (1975), pp. 136-152.
I have ignored such forms as (in modern spelling) he's, he'll, methinks, etc.; only the unattached pronouns are considered.
Evidence from spacing of punctuation was used to good effect in compositor analysis by T. H. Howard-Hill, "The Compositors of Shakespeare's First Folio Comedies," Studies in Bibliography, 26 (1973), 61-106; he discusses problems in determining whether a space has been used or not: the main requirement, which I have tried to fulfill, is that the investigator be consistent in the application of whatever criteria he adopts.
The two plays appear to have been set from the same roman fount, of which 20 lines of type measure 82-84 mm. The fount is most distinctively characterized by a double long ſſ ligature with a break in the left shoulder. In both plays virtually every instance of this much-used sort shows the same defect, which presumably originated in a faulty matrix.
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