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Actors and acting

  1. Armin, Robert. The Collected Works of Robert Armin. Ed J. P Feather. New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1972.
  2. Beckerman, Bernard. Shakespeare at the Globe, 1599-1609. London: Collier-Macmillan, 1962.
  3. Bentley, Gerald E. The Profession of Dramatist in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971.
  4. Bentley, Gerald E. The Profession of Player in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
  5. Bradbrook, M.C. The Rise of the Common Player: A Study of Actor and Society in Shakespeare's England. London: Chatto & Windus, 1962.
  6. Callaghan, Dympna. Shakespeare without Women: Representing Gender and Race on the Renaissance Stage. London; New York: Routledge, 2000.
  7. Chambers, E.K.. The Elizabethan Stage. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951. 4 vols.
  8. Davies, Robertson. Shakespeare's Boy Actors. New York: Russell & Russell, 1964.
  9. Day, Barry. This Wooden 'O', Shakespeare's Globe Reborn, the Official Story, with a Foreword by Sir John Gielgud. London: Oberon Books, 1996.
  10. Dessen, Alan C. , and Leslie Thomson. A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama 1580-1642. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
  11. Gibson, Joy Leslie. Squeaking Cleopatras: The Elizabethan Boy Player. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2000.
  12. Grebanier, Bernard D. N.. Then Came Each Actor: Shakespearean Actors, Great and Otherwise, Including Players and Princes, Rogues, Vagabonds and Actors Motley, from Will Kempe to Olivier and Gielgud and After. New York: McKay, 1975.
  13. Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in Shakespeare's London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
  14. Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Playing Companies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
  15. Hillebrand, Harold Newcomb. The Child Actors. New York: Russell & Russell, 1964.
  16. Holmes, Martin Rivington. Shakespeare and Burbage: The Sound of Shakespeare as Devised to Suit the Voice and Talents of His Principal Player. London: Phillimore, 1978.
  17. Hudson, Katherine. The Story of the Elizabethan Boy-Actors. London: Oxford University Press, 1971.
  18. Joseph, B. L. Elizabethan Acting. London: Oxford University Press, 1964 [1951].
  19. Joseph, Bertram Leon. The Tragic Actor. London: Routledge & Paul, 1959.
  20. Kempe, William. A Dutiful Invective against the Treasons of Ballard and Babington. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971.
  21. King, Thomas J. Casting Shakespeare's Plays: London Actors and Their Roles 1590-1642. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.
  22. Mann, David. The Elizabethan Player: Contemporary Stage Representation. London: Routledge, 1991.
  23. Murray, John Tucker. English Dramatic Companies, 1558-1642. New York: Russell and Russell, 1963 [1910]. 2 vols.
  24. Nungezer, Edwin. A Dictionary of Actors and of Other Persons Associated with the Public Representation of Plays in England before 1642.. New York: Greenwood Press, 1968 [1929].
  25. Orgel, Stephen. Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  26. Shapiro, Michael. Children of the Revels: The Boy Companies of Shakespeare's Time and Their Plays. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.
  27. Stopes, Charlotte Carmichael. Burbage and Shakespeare's Stage. New York: Haskell House, 1970.
  28. Thomson, Peter. Shakespeare's Professional Career. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  29. Wallace, Charles William. The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars 1597-1603. New York: AMS Press, 1970 [1908].
  30. Wiles, David. Shakespeare's Clown: Actor and Text in the Elizabethan Playhouse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.