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

English Renaissance literature (general)

  1. Axton, Marie, and Raymond Williams, eds. English Drama, Forms and Development: Essays in Honour of Muriel Clara Bradbrook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
  2. Benson, Pamela. The Invention of the Renaissance Woman: The Challenge of Female Independence in the Literature and Thought of Italy and England. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.
  3. Booty, John E, ed. The Godly Kingdom of Tudor England: Great Books of the English Reformation. Wilton, Conn: Morehouse-Barlow Co., 1981.
  4. Booty, John E.. "Godly and Fruitful Lessons: The English Bible, Erasmus' Paraphrases, and the Book of Homilies." The Godly Kingdom of Tudor England: Great Books of the English Reformation. Ed. John E. Booty. Wilton, Conn: Morehouse-Barlow Co., 1981.
  5. Bradbrook, Muriel C.. Shakespeare, the Poet in His World. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1978.
  6. Briggs, Julia. This Stage-Play World: English Literature and Its Background, 1580-1625. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
  7. Buonarroti, Michelangelo. The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Annotated Translation. Saslow, James M ed. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1991.
  8. Burton, E.J.. The Student's Guide to British Theatre and Drama. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1963.
  9. Clubb, Louise George. Italian Drama in Shakespeare's Time. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990.
  10. Craig, Hardin. The Enchanted Glass: The Elizabethan Mind in Literature. Oxford: Blackwell, 1966 [1935].
  11. Crane, W. G. Wit and Rhetoric in the Renaissance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964 [1947].
  12. Donno, Elizabeth Story, ed. The Renaissance, Exluding Drama. London: Macmillan, 1983.
  13. Doran, Madeleine. Endeavors of Art: A Study of Form in Elizabethan Drama. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1954.
  14. Duncan-Jones, Katherine. Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991.
  15. Ezell, Margaret J. The Patriarch's Wife: Literature Evidence and the History of the Family. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Caroline Press, 1987.
  16. Fehrenbach, R.J., and E.S. Leedham-Green. Private Libraries in Renaissance England: A Collection and Catalogue of Tudor and Early Stuart Book-Lists. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies ;, 1992.
  17. Fraser, Russell. The War against Poetry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970.
  18. Freeman, Rosemary. English Emblem Books. London: Chatto and Windus, 1848.
  19. Gaisser, Julia Haig. Catullus and His Renaissance Readers. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.
  20. Gascoigne, Bamber. World Theatre. London: Ebary Press, 1968.
  21. Gent, Lucy, and Nigel Llewellyn, eds. Renaissance Bodies: The Human Figure in English Culture C. 1540-1660. London: Reaktion Books, 1990.
  22. Goldberg, J. James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne and Their Contemporaries. Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
  23. Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. Representing the English Renaissance. Berkeley CA: U of California P, 1991.
  24. Greg, W. W. A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1939-1959. 4 vols.
  25. Hill, Christopher. A Nation of Change and Novelty: Politics, Religion and Literature in Seventeenth Century England. New York: Routledge, 1991.
  26. Holbrook, David. Images of Woman in Literature. New York: New York University Press, 1989.
  27. Holden, William P. Anti-Puritan Satire, 1572-1642. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954.
  28. Holzknecht, Karl J.. The Backgrounds of Shakespeare's Plays. New York: American Book Company, 1950.
  29. Honigmann, E. A. J. John Weever: A Biography of a Literature Associate of Shakespeare and Jonson, Together with a Photographic Facsimile of Weever's Epigrammes (1599). Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1987.
  30. Johnson, Robert C. Robert Greene 1945-1965; Thomas Lodge 1939-1965; John Lyly 1939-1965; Thomas Nashe 1941-1965; George Peele 1939-1965 [Bibliographies]. London: Nether Press, 1967.
  31. Kernodle, George R. From Art to Theatre: Form and Convention in the Renaissance. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1944.
  32. Kernodle, George R. Invitation to the Theatre. New York: Harcourt Brace and World, 1967.
  33. Lewis, C. S. The Allegory of Love. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1936.
  34. Lewis, C. S. English Literature in the Sixteenth Century. Vol. 3. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1954.
  35. Lomax, Marion. Stage Images and Traditions: Shakespeare to Ford. Cambridge: Cambridge Universtity Press, 1987.
  36. Loomba, Ania. Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989.
  37. Marder, Louis. His Exits and His Entrances: The Story of Shakespeare's Reputation. London: J. Murray, 1963.
  38. Mason, H. A. Humanism and Poetry in the Early Tudor Period. London: Routledge and Paul, 1959.
  39. McCollum, John I. Jr, ed. The Age of Elizabeth: Selected Source Materials in Elizabethan Social and Literature History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960.
  40. McLuskie, Kathleen. Renaissance Dramatists. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1989.
  41. McMichael, George, and Edgar M. Glenn. Shakespeare and His Rivals: A Casebook on the Authorship Controversy. New York: Odyssey, 1962.
  42. Meres, Francis. Francis Meres' Treatise "Poetrie": A Critical Edition. Ed Don Cameron Allen. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1933.
  43. Montaigne, Michel de. The Essayes of Montaigne: John Florio's Translation. New York: Modern Library, 1933.
  44. Orgel, Stephen. The Illusion of Power: Political Theatre in the English Renaissance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
  45. Overbury, Thomas, Sir. Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse Now First Collected. Ed Edward F. Rimbault. London: Reeves & Turner, 1890.
  46. Ovid, Publius Naso. Metamorphoses. Trans. Rolfe Humphries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955.
  47. Roston, Murray. Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
  48. Roston, Murray. Sixteenth-Century English Literature. London: Macmillan, 1982.
  49. Schoenbaum, Samuel. Internal Evidence and Elizabethan Dramatic Authorship: An Essay in Literature History and Method. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1966.
  50. Shakespeare, William. The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare. Ed Sylvan Barnet. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972 [1963].
  51. Spearing, A. C. Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry. London, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
  52. Walker, Daniel. Music, Spirit and Language in the Renaissance. Ed Penelope Gouk. London: Variorum Reprints, 1985.
  53. Weimann, Robert. Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater. Ed Robert Schwartz. Baltimore Md.: Johns Hopkins Press, 1978.
  54. Whitaker, Virgil K. Shakespeare's Use of Learning. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1953.
  55. White, Harold Ogden. Plagiarism and Imitation During the English Renaissance. New York: Octagon Books, 1965 [1935].
  56. Willey, Basil. The Seventeenth Century Background: Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion. New York: Columbia University Press, 1950.
  57. Wilson, F. P. Elizabethan and Jacobean. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1945.