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- Armin, Robert. The
Collected Works of Robert Armin. Ed J. P Feather. New
York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1972.
- Beckerman, Bernard.
Shakespeare at the Globe, 1599-1609. London:
Collier-Macmillan, 1962.
- Bentley, Gerald E. The
Profession of Dramatist in Shakespeare's Time,
1590-1642. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
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- Bentley, Gerald E. The
Profession of Player in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
- Bradbrook, M.C. The Rise
of the Common Player: A Study of Actor and Society in
Shakespeare's England. London: Chatto & Windus,
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- Callaghan, Dympna.
Shakespeare without Women: Representing Gender and Race
on the Renaissance Stage. London; New York: Routledge,
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- Chambers, E.K.. The
Elizabethan Stage. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951. 4
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- Davies, Robertson.
Shakespeare's Boy Actors. New York: Russell &
Russell, 1964.
- Day, Barry. This Wooden 'O',
Shakespeare's Globe Reborn, the Official Story, with a
Foreword by Sir John Gielgud. London: Oberon Books,
1996.
- Dessen, Alan
C. , and Leslie Thomson. A Dictionary of Stage
Directions in English Drama 1580-1642. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1999.
- Gibson, Joy Leslie.
Squeaking Cleopatras: The Elizabethan Boy Player.
Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2000.
- Grebanier, Bernard D.
N.. Then Came Each Actor: Shakespearean Actors,
Great and Otherwise, Including Players and Princes, Rogues,
Vagabonds and Actors Motley, from Will Kempe to Olivier and
Gielgud and After. New York: McKay, 1975.
- Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in
Shakespeare's London. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1987.
- Gurr, Andrew. The
Shakespearean Playing Companies. Oxford: Oxford
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- Hillebrand, Harold
Newcomb. The Child Actors. New York: Russell
& Russell, 1964.
- Holmes, Martin
Rivington. Shakespeare and Burbage: The Sound of
Shakespeare as Devised to Suit the Voice and Talents of His
Principal Player. London: Phillimore, 1978.
- Hudson, Katherine. The
Story of the Elizabethan Boy-Actors. London: Oxford
University Press, 1971.
- Joseph, B. L. Elizabethan
Acting. London: Oxford University Press, 1964 [1951].
- Joseph, Bertram Leon.
The Tragic Actor. London: Routledge & Paul,
1959.
- Kempe, William. A Dutiful
Invective against the Treasons of Ballard and
Babington. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971.
- King, Thomas J. Casting
Shakespeare's Plays: London Actors and Their Roles
1590-1642. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.
- Mann, David. The Elizabethan
Player: Contemporary Stage Representation. London:
Routledge, 1991.
- Murray, John Tucker.
English Dramatic Companies, 1558-1642. New York:
Russell and Russell, 1963 [1910]. 2 vols.
- Nungezer, Edwin. A
Dictionary of Actors and of Other Persons Associated with
the Public Representation of Plays in England before
1642.. New York: Greenwood Press, 1968 [1929].
- Orgel, Stephen.
Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in
Shakespeare's England. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1996.
- Shapiro, Michael.
Children of the Revels: The Boy Companies of
Shakespeare's Time and Their Plays. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1977.
- Stopes, Charlotte
Carmichael. Burbage and Shakespeare's Stage.
New York: Haskell House, 1970.
- Thomson, Peter.
Shakespeare's Professional Career. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1992.
- Wallace, Charles
William. The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars
1597-1603. New York: AMS Press, 1970 [1908].
- Wiles, David. Shakespeare's
Clown: Actor and Text in the Elizabethan Playhouse.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.