Footnotes

1. Bibliographies on the stage

   • The medieval stage
   • The masque
   • Stage effects
   • The stage (sources)
   • Actors and companies
   • The audience

2. Bibliographies on society

   • Women in the Renaissance
   • Courtship and marriage
   • Family and children
   • The housewife
   • Husbandry
   • City life
   • Outsiders
   • Court life and dress

3. Bibliographies on the historical background

   • Shakespeare's "prehistory"
   • Shakespeare's Rome
   • Shakespeare's histories
   • Joan of Arc
   • The Tudors
   • Peasant uprisings
   • Elizabeth I
   • James I
   • Crime and the law
   • The puritans

4. Bibliographies on the intellectual background

   • Order
   • Science and astrology
   • Education
   • New knowledge
   • Religion
   • Churchgoing
   • The occult and folklore
   • Witchcraft and witches

5. Bibliographies on the Drama

   • Classical drama
   • Medieval drama
   • Tragedy
   • Comedy
   • Histories
   • Shakespeare's contemporaries

6. Bibliographies on the literature, art, and music

   • Elizabethan English
   • Poetry
   • Prose
   • Women writers
   • Printing and publishing
   • Courtly love
   • Art
   • Architecture
   • Music

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