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Shakespeare on Stage
American Shakespeare Center, The Duchess of Malfi. To Jun. 15, 2013.
American Shakespeare Center, Return to the Forbidden Planet. To Dec. 1, 2013.
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.

Women in the Renaissance

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  2. Anderson, Michael. Approaches to the History of the Western Family, 1500-1914. London: Macmillan, 1980.
  3. Aries, Phillipe. Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life. Trans. Robert Baldrick. New York: Vintage Books, 1962.
  4. Arnold, Janet. Patterns of Fashion: The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women, C1560-1620. London: Macmillan, 1985.
  5. Bates, Catherine. The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  6. Bell, Ilona.. Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  7. Bell, Susan G, ed. Women: From the Greeks to the French Revolution. Belmont: Wadsworth, 1973.
  8. Best, Michael R. "Medical Use of a Sixteenth-Century Herbal." Bulletin of the History of Medicine l, iii? (1979): 449-58.
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  10. Boulding, Elise. The Underside of History: A View of Women through Time. Boulder: Westview Press, 1976.
  11. Brink, Jean R., Maryanne C. Horowitz, and Allison P. Coudert, eds. Playing with Gender: A Renaissance Pursuit. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
  12. Brooke, Christopher N. L. The Medieval Idea of Marriage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
  13. Brownlow, Frank Walsh. Shakespeare, Harsnett, and the Devils of Denham. Newark: Delaware U.P, 1993.
  14. Burford, E. J. Bawds and Lodgings: A History of the London Bankside Brothels. London: Peter Owen, 1976.
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  16. Cahn, Susan. Industry of Devotion: The Transformation of Women's Work in England, 1500-1660. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
  17. Camden, Charles Carroll. The Elizabethan Woman. London: Cleavery-Hume, 1952.
  18. Carlson, Eric Josef.. Marriage and the English Reformation. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell Pub., 1994.
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  20. Charles, Lindsey, and Lorna Duffin. Women and Work in Pre-Industrial England. London: Croom Helm, 1985.
  21. Chicago, Judy. The Dinner Party. New York: Doubleday, 1973.
  22. Clark, Alice. Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century. New York: Harcourt Brace and Rowe, 1920.
  23. Clark, Cumberland. Shakespeare and Home Life. London: Williams & Norgate Ltd., 1935.
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  27. De Mause, Lloyd. The History of Childhood. New York: Harper and Row, 1975.
  28. Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Deirdre English. Witches Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers. Old Westbury, New York: Feminist Press, 1973.
  29. Erickson, Amy Louise. Women and Property in Early Modern England. London: Routledge, 1993.
  30. Fildes, Valerie. Breasts, Bottles and Babies: A History of Infant Feeding. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1986.
  31. Forbes, Thomas R. The Midwife and the Witch. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966.
  32. Frye, Roland M. "The Teachings of Classical Puritanism on Conjugal Love." Studies in the Renaissance 2 (1955): 148-59.
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  38. Hogrefe, Pearl. Women of Action in Tudor England. Ames, Iowa: Iowa University Press, 1975.
  39. Holbrook, David. Images of Woman in Literature. New York: New York University Press, 1989.
  40. Hole, Christina. English Home Life, 1500-1800. London: Batsford, 1947.
  41. Hole, Christina. The English Housewife in the Seventeenth Century. London: Chatto & Windus, 1953.
  42. Houlbrooke, Ralph A. The English Family, 1450-1700. London: Longman, 1984.
  43. Hughes, Muriel Joy. Woman Healers in Medieval Life and Literature. New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1968.
  44. Hull, Suzanne W.. Women According to Men: The World of Tudor-Stuart Women. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 1996.
  45. Hunter, Lynette, and Sarah Hutton, eds. Women, Science and Medicine 1500-1700: Mothers and Sisters of the Royal Society. Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1997.
  46. Ingram, Martin. Church Courts, Sex, and Marriage in England, 1570-1640. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
  47. Jordan, Constance. Renaissance Feminism: Literature Texts and Political Models. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990.
  48. Karras, Ruth. "The Regulation of Brothels in Later Medieval England." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14 (1989): 426.
  49. Kermode, Jennifer and Garthine Walker, eds.. Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England. London: UCL Press, 1994.
  50. King, Margaret L. Women of the Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
  51. Klein, Joan Larsen. Daughters, Wives, and Widows: Writings by Men About Women and Marriage in England,1500-1640. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
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  53. Markham, Gervase. The English Housewife. Ed Michael R Best. Toronto: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986.
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  56. Mertes, Kate. The English Noble Household, 1250-1600: Good Governance and Politic Rule. Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1988.
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  61. Orlin, Lena Cowen. Elizabethan Households: An Anthology. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1995.
  62. Otten, Charlotte F, ed. English Women's Voices. Miami: Florida International University Press, 1992.
  63. Paston Family. Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century. Ed Norman Davis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
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  69. Sachs, Hannelore. The Renaissance Woman. Ed D. T. Rice. Trans. Marianne Herzfield. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.
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  72. Shephard, Amanda. Gender and Authority in Sixteenth-Century England: The Knox Debate. Keele, Staffordshire: Ryburn Pub., 1994.
  73. Shorter, Edward. A History of Women's Bodies. New York: Basic Books, 1982.
  74. Shorter, Edward. The Making of the Modern Family. New York: Basic Books, 1975.
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  80. Thompson, John Lee. John Calvin and the Daughters of Sarah: Women in Regular and Exceptional Roles in the Exegesis of Calvin, His Predecessors, and His Contemporaries. Geneve, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 1992.
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