Possible Clues:

• Extreme characters confined in Notts?
• Too old to go into battle from the trenches?
• Public dance, including entertainment extremely lacking in restraint
• Theatrically excessive
• Where soldiers in the trenches would go, too much
• Where the circus flag might be is a little extreme
• How infantry used to go into action, excessively
• Finished article better be exaggerated
• Excessive travel to the next valley may be considered this
• After renaissance, poet throve inordinately