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  1. Axton, Marie, and Raymond Williams, eds. English Drama, Forms and Development: Essays in Honour of Muriel Clara Bradbrook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
  2. Benson, Pamela. The Invention of the Renaissance Woman: The Challenge of Female Independence in the Literature and Thought of Italy and England. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.
  3. Booty, John E, ed. The Godly Kingdom of Tudor England: Great Books of the English Reformation. Wilton, Conn: Morehouse-Barlow Co., 1981.
  4. Booty, John E.. "Godly and Fruitful Lessons: The English Bible, Erasmus' Paraphrases, and the Book of Homilies." The Godly Kingdom of Tudor England: Great Books of the English Reformation. Ed. John E. Booty. Wilton, Conn: Morehouse-Barlow Co., 1981.
  5. Bradbrook, Muriel C.. Shakespeare, the Poet in His World. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1978.
  6. Briggs, Julia. This Stage-Play World: English Literature and Its Background, 1580-1625. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
  7. Buonarroti, Michelangelo. The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Annotated Translation. Saslow, James M ed. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1991.
  8. Burton, E.J.. The Student's Guide to British Theatre and Drama. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1963.
  9. Clubb, Louise George. Italian Drama in Shakespeare's Time. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990.
  10. Craig, Hardin. The Enchanted Glass: The Elizabethan Mind in Literature. Oxford: Blackwell, 1966 [1935].
  11. Crane, W. G. Wit and Rhetoric in the Renaissance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964 [1947].
  12. Donno, Elizabeth Story, ed. The Renaissance, Exluding Drama. London: Macmillan, 1983.
  13. Doran, Madeleine. Endeavors of Art: A Study of Form in Elizabethan Drama. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1954.
  14. Duncan-Jones, Katherine. Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991.
  15. Ezell, Margaret J. The Patriarch's Wife: Literature Evidence and the History of the Family. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Caroline Press, 1987.
  16. Fehrenbach, R.J., and E.S. Leedham-Green. Private Libraries in Renaissance England: A Collection and Catalogue of Tudor and Early Stuart Book-Lists. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies ;, 1992.
  17. Fraser, Russell. The War against Poetry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970.
  18. Freeman, Rosemary. English Emblem Books. London: Chatto and Windus, 1848.
  19. Gaisser, Julia Haig. Catullus and His Renaissance Readers. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.
  20. Gascoigne, Bamber. World Theatre. London: Ebary Press, 1968.
  21. Gent, Lucy, and Nigel Llewellyn, eds. Renaissance Bodies: The Human Figure in English Culture C. 1540-1660. London: Reaktion Books, 1990.
  22. Goldberg, J. James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne and Their Contemporaries. Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
  23. Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. Representing the English Renaissance. Berkeley CA: U of California P, 1991.
  24. Greg, W. W. A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1939-1959. 4 vols.
  25. Hill, Christopher. A Nation of Change and Novelty: Politics, Religion and Literature in Seventeenth Century England. New York: Routledge, 1991.
  26. Holbrook, David. Images of Woman in Literature. New York: New York University Press, 1989.
  27. Holden, William P. Anti-Puritan Satire, 1572-1642. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954.
  28. Holzknecht, Karl J.. The Backgrounds of Shakespeare's Plays. New York: American Book Company, 1950.
  29. Honigmann, E. A. J. John Weever: A Biography of a Literature Associate of Shakespeare and Jonson, Together with a Photographic Facsimile of Weever's Epigrammes (1599). Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1987.
  30. Johnson, Robert C. Robert Greene 1945-1965; Thomas Lodge 1939-1965; John Lyly 1939-1965; Thomas Nashe 1941-1965; George Peele 1939-1965 [Bibliographies]. London: Nether Press, 1967.
  31. Kernodle, George R. From Art to Theatre: Form and Convention in the Renaissance. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1944.
  32. Kernodle, George R. Invitation to the Theatre. New York: Harcourt Brace and World, 1967.
  33. Lewis, C. S. The Allegory of Love. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1936.
  34. Lewis, C. S. English Literature in the Sixteenth Century. Vol. 3. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1954.
  35. Lomax, Marion. Stage Images and Traditions: Shakespeare to Ford. Cambridge: Cambridge Universtity Press, 1987.
  36. Loomba, Ania. Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989.
  37. Marder, Louis. His Exits and His Entrances: The Story of Shakespeare's Reputation. London: J. Murray, 1963.
  38. Mason, H. A. Humanism and Poetry in the Early Tudor Period. London: Routledge and Paul, 1959.
  39. McCollum, John I. Jr, ed. The Age of Elizabeth: Selected Source Materials in Elizabethan Social and Literature History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960.
  40. McLuskie, Kathleen. Renaissance Dramatists. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1989.
  41. McMichael, George, and Edgar M. Glenn. Shakespeare and His Rivals: A Casebook on the Authorship Controversy. New York: Odyssey, 1962.
  42. Meres, Francis. Francis Meres' Treatise "Poetrie": A Critical Edition. Ed Don Cameron Allen. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1933.
  43. Montaigne, Michel de. The Essayes of Montaigne: John Florio's Translation. New York: Modern Library, 1933.
  44. Orgel, Stephen. The Illusion of Power: Political Theatre in the English Renaissance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
  45. Overbury, Thomas, Sir. Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse Now First Collected. Ed Edward F. Rimbault. London: Reeves & Turner, 1890.
  46. Ovid, Publius Naso. Metamorphoses. Trans. Rolfe Humphries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955.
  47. Roston, Murray. Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
  48. Roston, Murray. Sixteenth-Century English Literature. London: Macmillan, 1982.
  49. Schoenbaum, Samuel. Internal Evidence and Elizabethan Dramatic Authorship: An Essay in Literature History and Method. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1966.
  50. Shakespeare, William. The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare. Ed Sylvan Barnet. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972 [1963].
  51. Spearing, A. C. Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry. London, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
  52. Walker, Daniel. Music, Spirit and Language in the Renaissance. Ed Penelope Gouk. London: Variorum Reprints, 1985.
  53. Weimann, Robert. Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater. Ed Robert Schwartz. Baltimore Md.: Johns Hopkins Press, 1978.
  54. Whitaker, Virgil K. Shakespeare's Use of Learning. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1953.
  55. White, Harold Ogden. Plagiarism and Imitation During the English Renaissance. New York: Octagon Books, 1965 [1935].
  56. Willey, Basil. The Seventeenth Century Background: Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion. New York: Columbia University Press, 1950.
  57. Wilson, F. P. Elizabethan and Jacobean. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1945.