SOURCES FOR A VERY WOMAN

Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621).

(perhaps) Ford, John. The Lover's Melancholy (perf. 1628).

De Calahorra, Diego Ortuņez. The Eighth Book of the Mirror of Knighthood. Trans. 'L.A.' (1599).

Fletcher, John, and Philip Massinger. The Custom of the Country (perf. 1620). Using Massinger's own sections.

Plautus. Curculio.

REFERENCE : Philip Edwards and Colin Gibson, eds. The Plays and Poems of Philip Massinger. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. 4.292-5.