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  1. Bevan, Bryan. King Richard II. London: Rubicon Press, 1990.
  2. Boswell-Stone, W.G., ed. Shakespeare's Holinshed. New York: Benjamin Blom, 1966 [1907].
  3. Brown, Alfred Lawson. The Governance of Late Medieval England, 1272-1461. London: Edward Arnold, 1989.
  4. Bruce, Marie Louise. The Usurper King: Henry of Bolingbroke, 1366-99. London: Rubicon Press, 1986.
  5. Butt, Ronald. A History of Parliament: The Middle Ages. London: Constable, 1989.
  6. Campbell, Lily B. Shakespeare's "Histories": Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy. San Marino, California: Huntington Library Publications, 1958.
  7. Canning, Joseph. A History of Medieval Political Thought 300-1450. London: Routledge, 1996.
  8. Chrimes, S.B. English Constitutional Ideas in the Fifteenth Century. New York: American Scholars Publications, 1966.
  9. Cook, David R.. Lancastrians and Yorkists: The Wars of the Roses. New York: Longman, 1984.
  10. Costain, Thomas B. The Last Plantagenets. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1962.
  11. Davies, R.G, and J.H Denton, eds. The English Parliament in the Middle Ages. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1981.
  12. Fleischer, Martha Hester. The Iconography of the English History Play. Salzburg: Institut fur Englische Sprache und Literatur: Universitat Salzburg, 1974.
  13. Gesta, Henrici Quinti. "Gesta Henrici Quinti." Trans. Frank. Taylor, and John S. Roskell. London: Oxford UP, 1975.
  14. Golden Legend, The. "The Golden Legend: The Life of St. George." Ed. William Nelson. Trans. Wynkyn de Worde. London: Oxford UP, 1960.
  15. Hallam, Elizabeth. The Chronicles of the Wars of the Roses. Markham, Ontario: Viking, Penguin Books, Canada Ltd, 1988.
  16. Hanham, Alison. Richard III and His Early Historians, 1483-1535. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
  17. Harriss, G.L.. Henry V, the Practice of Kingship. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1985.
  18. Hart, Jonathan Locke. Theater and World: The Problematics of Shakespeare's History. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.
  19. Harvey, John. The Plantaganets. London: Severn House Publishers, 1976.
  20. Hilton, R.H, ed. Peasants, Knights, and Heretics; Studies in Medieval Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1976.
  21. Holderness, Graham. Shakespeare's History. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1985.
  22. Holderness, Graham et al. Shakespeare: The Play of History. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1988.
  23. Holinshed, Raphael. Holinshed's Chronicle, as Used in Shakespeare's Plays. Eds. Allardyce Nicoll and Josephine Nicoll. London: J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1959.
  24. Holinshed, Raphael. Shakespeare's Holinshed: An Edition of Holinshed's Chronicles (1587); Sources of Shakespeare's History Plays, "King Lear," "Cymbeline," and "Macbeth". Ed Richard Hosley. New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1968.
  25. Hollister, C. Warren. Medieval Europe, a Short History.. 5th ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
  26. Hosley, Richard, ed. An Edition of Holinshed's Chronicles. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1968.
  27. Jones, Emrys Maldwyn. The Origins of Shakespeare. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.
  28. Lander, Jack R. Crown and Nobility, 1450-1509. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 1976.
  29. Lennox, Charlotte. Shakespear Illustrated, or, the Novels and Histories: On Which the Plays of Shakespear Are Founded, Collected and Translated from the Original Authors, with Critical Remarks. New York: AMS Press, 1973.
  30. Marriot, J A R. English History in Shakespeare. London: Chapman and Hall, 1918.
  31. McFarlane, K.B.. England in the Fifteenth Century. London: Hambledon Press, 1981.
  32. Monmouth, Geoffrey of. History of the Kings of Britain. Trans. Lewis Thorpe. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1988 [1966].
  33. More, Sir Thomas. "History of King Richard III." Richard III, the Great Debate. Ed. Paul Kendall. London: Folio Society, 1965.
  34. Murph, Roxane C.. Richard III: The Making of a Legend. Metuchen, U.S.A.: Scarecrow Press, 1977.
  35. Myers, A.R. Crown, Household and Parliament in Fifteenth Century England. Ed Cecil H. Clough. London: Hambledon Press, 1985.
  36. Nameri, Dorothy E.. Three Versions of the Story of King Lear (Anonymous Ca. 1594-1605, William Shakespeare1607-1608, Nahum Tate 1681) Studied in Relation to One Another. Salzburg, Austria: Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur, Universität Salzburg, 1976.
  37. Norwich, John Julius. Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages, 1337-1485: Viking, 1999.
  38. Pallister, Anne. Magna Carta, the Heritage of Liberty. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
  39. Palmer, M.D.. Henry Viii. London: Longman Group, 1971.
  40. Pearlman, E.. William Shakespeare, the History Plays. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992.
  41. Pollard, A.J.. The Wars of the Roses. London: Macmillan Education, 1988.
  42. Pollard, Tony, ed. Property and Politics: Essays in Later Medieval English History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984.
  43. Potter, Jeremy. Good King Richard? An Account of Richard III and His Reputation. London: Constable, 1983.
  44. Rackin, Phyllis. Stages of History: Shakespeare's English Chronicles. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1990.
  45. Ribner, Irving. The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare. New York: Barnes & Nobel, 1965.
  46. Ross, James Bruce, and Mary Martin McLauglin, eds. The Portable Medieval Reader. New York: Viking Penguin, 1977 [1949].
  47. Saccio, Peter. Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama. 2nd ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  48. Saccio, Peter. Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1977.
  49. Salisbury, John of, Bishop of Chartres. The Letters of John of Salisbury. Eds. W. J. Millor, H.E. Butler and C N. L. Brooke. London: Nelson, 1955. 2 vols.
  50. Schwartz, Bernard. The Roots of Freedom; a Constitutional History of England. New York: Hill & Wang, 1967.
  51. Senior, Michael. The Life and Times of Richard II. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981.
  52. Seward, Desmond. Henry V as Warlord. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987.
  53. Shakespeare, William. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth: Texts and Contexts. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997.
  54. Taylor, John, and Wendy Childs, eds. Politics and Crisis in Fourteenth-Century England. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1990.
  55. Thomas, John A. F. The Transformation of Medieval England, 1370-1529. London: Longman, 1983.
  56. Thomson, John A.F, ed. Towns and Townspeople in the Fifteenth Century. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1988.
  57. Tillyard, E. M. W. The Elizabethan World Picture. London: Chatto and Windus, 1943.
  58. Tuck, Anthony. Crown and Nobility, 1272-1461: Political Conflict in Late Medieval England. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
  59. Watson, Donald G. Shakespeare's Early History Plays: Politics at Play on the Elizabethan Stage. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1990.
  60. Wilkinson, Bertie. Constitutional History of England in the Fifteenth Century (1399-1485). London: Longmans Green & Co, 1964.
  61. Wolffe, Bertram. Henry Vi. London: Eyre Methuen, 1981.