The shapelessness, the incoherence, the necessity for endless annotation and patching together, which mar so many even of the finest Elizabethan plays, have no place in Beaumont and Fletcher.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
There was not a line of her life, as lived before she knew him, that she had not revealed to him; there was not a passage of her life, when joined to his, that was not handed to him to write upon; but this, that she knew he'd married for a home, was never revealed, never inscribed upon the tablets submitted daily for his annotation.
"This Freedom"
A. S. M. Hutchinson
So runs an annotation of Alfieri on the margin of one of his lyrics.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)