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

History and politics

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  2. Barroll, J. Leeds. Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater: The Stuart Years. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
  3. Bean, John M.W. From Lord to Patron: Lordship in Late Medieval England. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1989.
  4. Beattie, John M, and Michael G Finlayson, eds. The Struggle for Power: English History, 1550-1720. Toronto: Canadian Scholar's Press, 1987.
  5. Boehrer, Bruce Thomas. Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England: Literature, Culture, Kinship, and Kingship. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
  6. Bouwsma, William James. The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.
  7. Cerasano, S.P., and Marion Wynne-Davies, eds. Gloriana's Face: Women, Public and Private, in the English Renaissance. Detroit, Mich: Wayne State University Press, 1992.
  8. Chambers, E.K.. The Elizabethan Stage. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951. 4 vols.
  9. Clark, Cumberland. Shakespeare and Home Life. London: Williams & Norgate Ltd., 1935.
  10. Coleman, Donald C. Industry in Tudor and Stuart England. London: Macmillan, 1975.
  11. Coward, Barry. Social Change and Continuity in Early Modern England, 1550-1750. London: Longman, 1988.
  12. Coward, Barry. The Stuart Age: A History of England 1603-1714. London: Longman, 1980.
  13. Danson, Lawrence. Shakespeare's Dramatic Genres. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  14. Davis, Natalie Zemon. "Women on Top: Symbolic Sexual Inversion and Political Disorder in Early Modern Europe." The Reversible World. Ed. Barbara A. Babcock. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1978. 147-90.
  15. Dean, D.M., and N.L. Jones, eds. The Parliaments of Elizabethan England. Oxford, UK: B. Blackwell, 1990.
  16. Douglas, David C.. English Historical Documents. 2nd ed. London: Methuen, 1979.
  17. Given-Wilson, Chris, and Alice Curteis. The Royal Bastards of Medieval England. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.
  18. Goldberg, J. James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne and Their Contemporaries. Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
  19. Graves, Michael R, and Robin H Silcock. Revolution, Reaction and the Triumph of Conservatism: English History, 1558-1700. Auckland, New Zealand: Longman Paul Ltd., 1984.
  20. Griffiths, Ralph A, and James Sherborne, eds. Kings and Nobles in the Later Middle Ages: A Tribute to Charles Ross. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1986.
  21. Hale, John R. The Art of War and Renaissance England. Washington: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1961.
  22. Hanson, Donald W. From Kingdom to Commonwealth; the Development of Civic Consciousness in English Political Thought. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1970.
  23. Hay, Denys, ed. The Age of the Renaissance. London: Thames & Hudson, 1986 [1967].
  24. Hill, Christopher. A Nation of Change and Novelty: Politics, Religion and Literature in Seventeenth Century England. New York: Routledge, 1991.
  25. Hoffman, Ann. Lives of the Tudor Age, 1485-1603. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.
  26. Holderness, Graham. Shakespeare: The Play of History. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1988.
  27. Humes, James C. Citizen Shakespeare: A Social and Political Portrait. Westport: Praeger, 1993.
  28. Hussey, Maurice. The World of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: A Visual Approach. London: Heinemann Educations Books Ltd., 1971.
  29. James, Mervyn. Society, Politics and Culture: Studies in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986.
  30. Jones, Norman L. The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
  31. Keeton, George Williams. Shakespeare's Legal and Political Background. London: Pitman, 1967.
  32. Lander, J.R.. Conflict and Stability in Fifteenth-Century England. 3rd ed. London: Hutchinson, 1977.
  33. Laslett, Peter. The World We Have Lost. London: Methuen, 1971 [1965].
  34. Lerner, Robert E, Standish Meacham, and Edward M. Burns, eds. Western Civilizations: Their History and Their Culture. 11th ed. ed. New York: Norton, 1988.
  35. Levin, Carole, and Karen Robertson, eds. Sexuality and Politics in Renaissance Drama. Lewiston NY: E. Mellen Press, 1991.
  36. Manley, Lawrence, ed. London in the Age of Shakespeare: An Anthology. London: Croom Helm, 1986.
  37. McFarlane, K.B.. England in the Fifteenth Century. London: Hambledon Press, 1981.
  38. Morgan, Kenneth, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1984.
  39. Mullaney, Steven. The Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
  40. Nicoll, Allardyce, ed. The Elizabethans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957.
  41. Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of English Drama, 1660-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952-59 (3 vols., rev. ed.).
  42. Norbrook, David. Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance. London; Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.
  43. Orgel, Stephen. The Illusion of Power: Political Theatre in the English Renaissance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
  44. Orme, Nicholas. From Childhood to Chivalry: The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy, 1066-1530. London, New York: Methuen, 1984.
  45. Plowden, Alison. The Elizabethan Secret Service. Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991.
  46. Rice, Eugene F. The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559. New York: Norton, 1970.
  47. Rose, Mary Beth, ed. Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1986.
  48. Rose, Mary Beth, ed. Renaissance Drama as Cultural History: Essays from Renaissance Drama 1977-1987. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1990.
  49. Ross, Charles, ed. Patronage, Pedigree and Power in Later Medieval England. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1979.
  50. Ross, James Bruce, and Mary Martin McLauglin, eds. The Portable Medieval Reader. New York: Viking Penguin, 1977 [1949].
  51. Shuger, Debora K. Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
  52. Slavin, Arthur Joseph, ed. Tudor Men and Institutions; Studies in English Law and Government. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana UP, 1972.
  53. Smith, Alan G.R. The Government of Elizabethan England. London: Edward Arnold, 1967.
  54. Smith, Thomas. De Republica Anglorum. Ed Mary Dewar. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982.
  55. Tillyard, E. M. W. The Elizabethan World Picture. London: Chatto and Windus, 1943.
  56. Trevor-Roper, Hugh, ed. The Age of Expansion: Europe and the World 1559-1660. London: Thames and Hudson, 1968.
  57. Youings, Joyce. Sixteenth-Century England. London: Penguin, 1984.