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American Shakespeare Center, Love's Labour's Lost. To Jun. 15, 2013.
American Shakespeare Center, Twelfth Night. To Jun. 16, 2013.
Folger Shakespeare Library, Twelfth Night. To Jun. 9, 2013.
American Shakespeare Center, The Duchess of Malfi. To Jun. 15, 2013.
American Shakespeare Center, Return to the Forbidden Planet. To Dec. 1, 2013.

The history of the Histories

  1. Bevan, Bryan. King Richard II. London: Rubicon Press, 1990.
  2. Boswell-Stone, W.G., ed. Shakespeare's Holinshed. New York: Benjamin Blom, 1966 [1907].
  3. Brown, Alfred Lawson. The Governance of Late Medieval England, 1272-1461. London: Edward Arnold, 1989.
  4. Bruce, Marie Louise. The Usurper King: Henry of Bolingbroke, 1366-99. London: Rubicon Press, 1986.
  5. Butt, Ronald. A History of Parliament: The Middle Ages. London: Constable, 1989.
  6. Campbell, Lily B. Shakespeare's "Histories": Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy. San Marino, California: Huntington Library Publications, 1958.
  7. Canning, Joseph. A History of Medieval Political Thought 300-1450. London: Routledge, 1996.
  8. Chrimes, S.B. English Constitutional Ideas in the Fifteenth Century. New York: American Scholars Publications, 1966.
  9. Cook, David R.. Lancastrians and Yorkists: The Wars of the Roses. New York: Longman, 1984.
  10. Costain, Thomas B. The Last Plantagenets. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1962.
  11. Davies, R.G, and J.H Denton, eds. The English Parliament in the Middle Ages. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1981.
  12. Fleischer, Martha Hester. The Iconography of the English History Play. Salzburg: Institut fur Englische Sprache und Literatur: Universitat Salzburg, 1974.
  13. Gesta, Henrici Quinti. "Gesta Henrici Quinti." Trans. Frank. Taylor, and John S. Roskell. London: Oxford UP, 1975.
  14. Golden Legend, The. "The Golden Legend: The Life of St. George." Ed. William Nelson. Trans. Wynkyn de Worde. London: Oxford UP, 1960.
  15. Hallam, Elizabeth. The Chronicles of the Wars of the Roses. Markham, Ontario: Viking, Penguin Books, Canada Ltd, 1988.
  16. Hanham, Alison. Richard III and His Early Historians, 1483-1535. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
  17. Harriss, G.L.. Henry V, the Practice of Kingship. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1985.
  18. Hart, Jonathan Locke. Theater and World: The Problematics of Shakespeare's History. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.
  19. Harvey, John. The Plantaganets. London: Severn House Publishers, 1976.
  20. Hilton, R.H, ed. Peasants, Knights, and Heretics; Studies in Medieval Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1976.
  21. Holderness, Graham. Shakespeare's History. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1985.
  22. Holderness, Graham et al. Shakespeare: The Play of History. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1988.
  23. Holinshed, Raphael. Holinshed's Chronicle, as Used in Shakespeare's Plays. Eds. Allardyce Nicoll and Josephine Nicoll. London: J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1959.
  24. Holinshed, Raphael. Shakespeare's Holinshed: An Edition of Holinshed's Chronicles (1587); Sources of Shakespeare's History Plays, "King Lear," "Cymbeline," and "Macbeth". Ed Richard Hosley. New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1968.
  25. Hollister, C. Warren. Medieval Europe, a Short History.. 5th ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
  26. Hosley, Richard, ed. An Edition of Holinshed's Chronicles. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1968.
  27. Jones, Emrys Maldwyn. The Origins of Shakespeare. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.
  28. Lander, Jack R. Crown and Nobility, 1450-1509. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 1976.
  29. Lennox, Charlotte. Shakespear Illustrated, or, the Novels and Histories: On Which the Plays of Shakespear Are Founded, Collected and Translated from the Original Authors, with Critical Remarks. New York: AMS Press, 1973.
  30. Marriot, J A R. English History in Shakespeare. London: Chapman and Hall, 1918.
  31. McFarlane, K.B.. England in the Fifteenth Century. London: Hambledon Press, 1981.
  32. Monmouth, Geoffrey of. History of the Kings of Britain. Trans. Lewis Thorpe. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1988 [1966].
  33. More, Sir Thomas. "History of King Richard III." Richard III, the Great Debate. Ed. Paul Kendall. London: Folio Society, 1965.
  34. Murph, Roxane C.. Richard III: The Making of a Legend. Metuchen, U.S.A.: Scarecrow Press, 1977.
  35. Myers, A.R. Crown, Household and Parliament in Fifteenth Century England. Ed Cecil H. Clough. London: Hambledon Press, 1985.
  36. Nameri, Dorothy E.. Three Versions of the Story of King Lear (Anonymous Ca. 1594-1605, William Shakespeare1607-1608, Nahum Tate 1681) Studied in Relation to One Another. Salzburg, Austria: Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur, Universität Salzburg, 1976.
  37. Norwich, John Julius. Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages, 1337-1485: Viking, 1999.
  38. Pallister, Anne. Magna Carta, the Heritage of Liberty. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
  39. Palmer, M.D.. Henry Viii. London: Longman Group, 1971.
  40. Pearlman, E.. William Shakespeare, the History Plays. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992.
  41. Pollard, A.J.. The Wars of the Roses. London: Macmillan Education, 1988.
  42. Pollard, Tony, ed. Property and Politics: Essays in Later Medieval English History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984.
  43. Potter, Jeremy. Good King Richard? An Account of Richard III and His Reputation. London: Constable, 1983.
  44. Rackin, Phyllis. Stages of History: Shakespeare's English Chronicles. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1990.
  45. Ribner, Irving. The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare. New York: Barnes & Nobel, 1965.
  46. Ross, James Bruce, and Mary Martin McLauglin, eds. The Portable Medieval Reader. New York: Viking Penguin, 1977 [1949].
  47. Saccio, Peter. Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama. 2nd ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  48. Saccio, Peter. Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1977.
  49. Salisbury, John of, Bishop of Chartres. The Letters of John of Salisbury. Eds. W. J. Millor, H.E. Butler and C N. L. Brooke. London: Nelson, 1955. 2 vols.
  50. Schwartz, Bernard. The Roots of Freedom; a Constitutional History of England. New York: Hill & Wang, 1967.
  51. Senior, Michael. The Life and Times of Richard II. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981.
  52. Seward, Desmond. Henry V as Warlord. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987.
  53. Shakespeare, William. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth: Texts and Contexts. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997.
  54. Taylor, John, and Wendy Childs, eds. Politics and Crisis in Fourteenth-Century England. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1990.
  55. Thomas, John A. F. The Transformation of Medieval England, 1370-1529. London: Longman, 1983.
  56. Thomson, John A.F, ed. Towns and Townspeople in the Fifteenth Century. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1988.
  57. Tillyard, E. M. W. The Elizabethan World Picture. London: Chatto and Windus, 1943.
  58. Tuck, Anthony. Crown and Nobility, 1272-1461: Political Conflict in Late Medieval England. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
  59. Watson, Donald G. Shakespeare's Early History Plays: Politics at Play on the Elizabethan Stage. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1990.
  60. Wilkinson, Bertie. Constitutional History of England in the Fifteenth Century (1399-1485). London: Longmans Green & Co, 1964.
  61. Wolffe, Bertram. Henry Vi. London: Eyre Methuen, 1981.