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- Archer, Ian W. The Pursuit
of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.
- Barroll, J. Leeds.
Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater: The Stuart
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- Barry, Jonathan, ed. The
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- Burford, E. J. Bawds and
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London: Peter Owen, 1976.
- Burford, E. J. The Orrible
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- Clark, Cumberland. The
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- Clark, Peter, and
Paul Slack, eds. Crisis and Order in English Towns,
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- Fischer, Sandra K..
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in Renaissance Drama. Newark, NJ: University of
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- Forbes, Thomas R.
Chronicle from Aldgate. New Haven and London: Yale
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- Griswold, Wendy..
Renaissance Revivals: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy
in the London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
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- Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in
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- Hattaway, Michael.
Elizabethan Popular Theatre: Plays in Performance.
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The Influence and Development of English Guilds.
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- Jack, Sybil M. Trade and
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- Jones, Norman. God and the
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- Karras, Ruth. "The Regulation of
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- Kellogg, A. O.
Shakespeare's Delineations of Insanity, Imbecility, and
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- Kinney, Arthur F, ed.
Rogues, Vagabonds & Sturdy Beggars: A New Gallery
of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature Exposing the
Lives, Times, and Cozening Tricks of the Elizabethan
Underworld. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1990.
- Lindsay, Jack, ed. Loving
Mad Tom: Bedlamite Verses of the Xvi and Xvii
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- MacDonald, Michael.
Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety and Healing in
Seventeenth Century England. Trans. RC438/M27.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
- Manley, Lawrence, ed.
London in the Age of Shakespeare: An Anthology.
London: Croom Helm, 1986.
- Marshburn, Joseph
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Crime and Sin. Rutherford NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson
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- McPeek, James
Andrew Scarborough.. The Black Book of Knaves and
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- Neaman, Judith S.
Suggestion of the Devil: The Origins of Madness.
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- Paster, Gail Kern. The
Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare. Athens GA:
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- Rappaport, Steve. Worlds
within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century
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- Reed, Robert R. Bedlam on
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- Salgado, Gamini. The
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- Shesgreen, Sean, ed.
The Criers and Hawkers of London. Stanford, CA:
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- Slack, Paul. The English Poor
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- Slack, Paul. From Reformation
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- Slack, Paul. Poverty and
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- Wheatley,
Henry Benjamin and Peter Cunningham. London, Past
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