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  1. Andrews, Kenneth R. "Trade, Plunder, and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480-1630." (1984).
  2. Barroll, J. Leeds. Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater: The Stuart Years. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
  3. Bean, John M.W. From Lord to Patron: Lordship in Late Medieval England. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1989.
  4. Beattie, John M, and Michael G Finlayson, eds. The Struggle for Power: English History, 1550-1720. Toronto: Canadian Scholar's Press, 1987.
  5. Boehrer, Bruce Thomas. Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England: Literature, Culture, Kinship, and Kingship. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
  6. Bouwsma, William James. The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.
  7. Cerasano, S.P., and Marion Wynne-Davies, eds. Gloriana's Face: Women, Public and Private, in the English Renaissance. Detroit, Mich: Wayne State University Press, 1992.
  8. Chambers, E.K.. The Elizabethan Stage. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951. 4 vols.
  9. Clark, Cumberland. Shakespeare and Home Life. London: Williams & Norgate Ltd., 1935.
  10. Coleman, Donald C. Industry in Tudor and Stuart England. London: Macmillan, 1975.
  11. Coward, Barry. Social Change and Continuity in Early Modern England, 1550-1750. London: Longman, 1988.
  12. Coward, Barry. The Stuart Age: A History of England 1603-1714. London: Longman, 1980.
  13. Danson, Lawrence. Shakespeare's Dramatic Genres. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  14. Davis, Natalie Zemon. "Women on Top: Symbolic Sexual Inversion and Political Disorder in Early Modern Europe." The Reversible World. Ed. Barbara A. Babcock. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1978. 147-90.
  15. Dean, D.M., and N.L. Jones, eds. The Parliaments of Elizabethan England. Oxford, UK: B. Blackwell, 1990.
  16. Douglas, David C.. English Historical Documents. 2nd ed. London: Methuen, 1979.
  17. Given-Wilson, Chris, and Alice Curteis. The Royal Bastards of Medieval England. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.
  18. Goldberg, J. James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne and Their Contemporaries. Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
  19. Graves, Michael R, and Robin H Silcock. Revolution, Reaction and the Triumph of Conservatism: English History, 1558-1700. Auckland, New Zealand: Longman Paul Ltd., 1984.
  20. Griffiths, Ralph A, and James Sherborne, eds. Kings and Nobles in the Later Middle Ages: A Tribute to Charles Ross. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1986.
  21. Hale, John R. The Art of War and Renaissance England. Washington: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1961.
  22. Hanson, Donald W. From Kingdom to Commonwealth; the Development of Civic Consciousness in English Political Thought. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1970.
  23. Hay, Denys, ed. The Age of the Renaissance. London: Thames & Hudson, 1986 [1967].
  24. Hill, Christopher. A Nation of Change and Novelty: Politics, Religion and Literature in Seventeenth Century England. New York: Routledge, 1991.
  25. Hoffman, Ann. Lives of the Tudor Age, 1485-1603. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.
  26. Holderness, Graham. Shakespeare: The Play of History. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1988.
  27. Humes, James C. Citizen Shakespeare: A Social and Political Portrait. Westport: Praeger, 1993.
  28. Hussey, Maurice. The World of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: A Visual Approach. London: Heinemann Educations Books Ltd., 1971.
  29. James, Mervyn. Society, Politics and Culture: Studies in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986.
  30. Jones, Norman L. The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
  31. Keeton, George Williams. Shakespeare's Legal and Political Background. London: Pitman, 1967.
  32. Lander, J.R.. Conflict and Stability in Fifteenth-Century England. 3rd ed. London: Hutchinson, 1977.
  33. Laslett, Peter. The World We Have Lost. London: Methuen, 1971 [1965].
  34. Lerner, Robert E, Standish Meacham, and Edward M. Burns, eds. Western Civilizations: Their History and Their Culture. 11th ed. ed. New York: Norton, 1988.
  35. Levin, Carole, and Karen Robertson, eds. Sexuality and Politics in Renaissance Drama. Lewiston NY: E. Mellen Press, 1991.
  36. Manley, Lawrence, ed. London in the Age of Shakespeare: An Anthology. London: Croom Helm, 1986.
  37. McFarlane, K.B.. England in the Fifteenth Century. London: Hambledon Press, 1981.
  38. Morgan, Kenneth, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1984.
  39. Mullaney, Steven. The Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
  40. Nicoll, Allardyce, ed. The Elizabethans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957.
  41. Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of English Drama, 1660-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952-59 (3 vols., rev. ed.).
  42. Norbrook, David. Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance. London; Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.
  43. Orgel, Stephen. The Illusion of Power: Political Theatre in the English Renaissance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
  44. Orme, Nicholas. From Childhood to Chivalry: The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy, 1066-1530. London, New York: Methuen, 1984.
  45. Plowden, Alison. The Elizabethan Secret Service. Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991.
  46. Rice, Eugene F. The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559. New York: Norton, 1970.
  47. Rose, Mary Beth, ed. Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1986.
  48. Rose, Mary Beth, ed. Renaissance Drama as Cultural History: Essays from Renaissance Drama 1977-1987. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1990.
  49. Ross, Charles, ed. Patronage, Pedigree and Power in Later Medieval England. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1979.
  50. Ross, James Bruce, and Mary Martin McLauglin, eds. The Portable Medieval Reader. New York: Viking Penguin, 1977 [1949].
  51. Shuger, Debora K. Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
  52. Slavin, Arthur Joseph, ed. Tudor Men and Institutions; Studies in English Law and Government. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana UP, 1972.
  53. Smith, Alan G.R. The Government of Elizabethan England. London: Edward Arnold, 1967.
  54. Smith, Thomas. De Republica Anglorum. Ed Mary Dewar. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982.
  55. Tillyard, E. M. W. The Elizabethan World Picture. London: Chatto and Windus, 1943.
  56. Trevor-Roper, Hugh, ed. The Age of Expansion: Europe and the World 1559-1660. London: Thames and Hudson, 1968.
  57. Youings, Joyce. Sixteenth-Century England. London: Penguin, 1984.