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- André, le
Chapelain. The Art of Courtly Love. Trans.
John Jay Parry. New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co, 1959.
- Anglo, Sydney, ed. Chivalry
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- Billington, Sandra.
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of English Courtly Love Lyrics in the Later Middle
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- Butler, Martin. "Early Stuart
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- Castiglione,
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- Edelman, Charles. Brawl
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Ferrante, Joan M., George D. Economou, and Frederick
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- Fienberg, Nona. Elizabeth,
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- Fumerton, Patricia.
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- Giles, Edward B. The Art
of Cutting and History of English Costume. Lopez
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Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last
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- Holderness, Graham.
Shakespeare, out of Court: Dramatizations of Court
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- Hurstfield, Joel.
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England. London: Jonathan Cape, 1973.
- Jaeger, C. Stephen.
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University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.
- Javitch, Daniel. Poetry
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- Kahn Blumstein,
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Romance. Bonn: Herbert Grundmann, 1977.
- Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Love and Marriage in the Age of Chaucer. Ithaca,
NY: Cornell University Press, 1975.
- Laroque, Francois.
Shakespeare's Festive World: Elizabethan Seasonal
Entertainment and the Professional Stage. Trans. Janet
Lloyd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
- Leonard, Frances
McNeely. Laughter in the Courts of Love: Comedy in
Allegory, from Chaucer to Spenser. Norman, Okla:
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- Lerer, Seth. Courtly Letters
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- Meader, William
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- Mott, Lewis F.. System of
Courtly Love. New York: Haskell House, 1965.
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"Eroici Fuori". New York: Columbia University Press,
1958.
- Newman, F. X., ed. The
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- Nicoll, Allardyce, ed.
The Elizabethans. Cambridge: Cambridge University
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- O'Donoghue, Bernard.
The Courtly Love Tradition. Manchester: Manchester
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- O'Gorman, Gerald, ed,
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Marcus His Sonne, Turned Oute of Latine into English, by
Nicolas Grimalde. By Marcus Tillius Cicero. Trans. Nicholas
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- Owen, Douglas D. R.
Noble Lovers. London: Phaidon, 1975.
- Rougemont, Denis. Love
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- Schmidgall, Gary.
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- Smith,
Nathaniel B., and Joseph T. Snow, eds. The
Expansion and Transformations of Courtly Literature.
Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 1980.
- Streitberger, W. R.
Court Revels, 1485-1559. Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, 1994.
- Welsford, Enid. The Fool:
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- Whigham, Frank.. Ambition
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- Woodhouse, John
Robert. Baldesar Castiglione: A Reassessment of the
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- Young, Alan. Tudor and
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