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  1. Archer, Ian W. The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.
  2. Barroll, J. Leeds. Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater: The Stuart Years. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
  3. Barry, Jonathan, ed. The Tudor and Stuart Town: A Reader in English Urban History, 1530-1688. New York: Longman, 1990.
  4. Burford, E. J. Bawds and Lodgings: A History of the London Bankside Brothels. London: Peter Owen, 1976.
  5. Burford, E. J. The Orrible Synne: A Look at London Lechery from Roman to Cromwellian Times. London: Calder & Boyars, 1973.
  6. Clark, Cumberland. The Eternal Shakespeare. London: Williams & Norgate, 1930.
  7. Clark, Peter, and Paul Slack, eds. Crisis and Order in English Towns, 1500-1700: Essays in Urban History. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1972.
  8. Cohen, Derek. Shakespeare's Culture of Violence. London: Macmillan, 1993.
  9. Dillon, Janette. Theatre, Court and City, 1595-1610: Drama and Social Space in London. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  10. Fischer, Sandra K.. Econolingua: A Glossary of Coins and Economic Language in Renaissance Drama. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 1985.
  11. Forbes, Thomas R. Chronicle from Aldgate. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1971.
  12. Griswold, Wendy.. Renaissance Revivals: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy in the London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
  13. Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in Shakespeare's London. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  14. Hattaway, Michael. Elizabethan Popular Theatre: Plays in Performance. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
  15. Hibbert, Francis A. The Influence and Development of English Guilds. New York: Augustus Kelley, 1970.
  16. Jack, Sybil M. Trade and Industry in Tudor and Stuart England. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977.
  17. Jones, Norman. God and the Moneylenders: Usury and Law in Early Modern England. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.
  18. Judges, A.V.. The Elizabethan Underworld. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1965 [1930].
  19. Karras, Ruth. "The Regulation of Brothels in Later Medieval England." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14 (1989): 426.
  20. Kellogg, A. O. Shakespeare's Delineations of Insanity, Imbecility, and Suicide. New York: A.M.S. Press, 1971 [1866].
  21. 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.
  22. Lindsay, Jack, ed. Loving Mad Tom: Bedlamite Verses of the Xvi and Xvii Centuries. Welwyn Garden City, Herts: Seven Dials Press, 1969 (1927).
  23. MacDonald, Michael. Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety and Healing in Seventeenth Century England. Trans. RC438/M27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
  24. Manley, Lawrence, ed. London in the Age of Shakespeare: An Anthology. London: Croom Helm, 1986.
  25. Marshburn, Joseph H., and Alan R. Velie, eds. Blood and Knavery; a Collection of English Renaissance Pamphlets and Ballads of Crime and Sin. Rutherford NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973.
  26. McMullan, John L.. The Canting Crew: London's Criminal Underworld, 1550-1700. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1984.
  27. McPeek, James Andrew Scarborough.. The Black Book of Knaves and Unthrifts, in Shakespeare and Other Renaissance Authors. Storrs: University of Connecticut, 1969.
  28. Neaman, Judith S. Suggestion of the Devil: The Origins of Madness. New York: Doubleday, 1975.
  29. Paster, Gail Kern. The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare. Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 1985.
  30. Rappaport, Steve. Worlds within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  31. Reed, Robert R. Bedlam on the Jacobean Stage. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952.
  32. Salgado, Gamini. The Elizabethan Underworld. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1977.
  33. Shesgreen, Sean, ed. The Criers and Hawkers of London. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1990.
  34. Slack, Paul. The English Poor Law, 1531-1782. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1990.
  35. Slack, Paul. From Reformation to Improvement: Public Welfare in Early Modern England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
  36. Slack, Paul. The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1985.
  37. Slack, Paul. Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England. London: Longman, 1988.
  38. Wheatley, Henry Benjamin and Peter Cunningham. London, Past and Present; a Dictionary of Its History, Associations, and Traditions. Detroit: Singing Tree Press, 1968. 3 vols.
  39. Whitney, Charles. "'Usually in the Werking Daies': Playgoing Journeymen, Apprentices, and Servants in Guild Records, 1582-92." Shakespeare Quarterly 50.4 (1999): 433-58.
  40. Woodbridge, Linda. Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
  41. Wright, Louis B. Middle Class Culture in Elizabethan England. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Pr, 1935.
  42. Zimmerman, Susan, and Ronald F.E. Weissman, eds. Urban Life in the Renaissance. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989.